On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Vincent Renardias wrote: > > kernel: > > upgrade to 2.2.11 (many new/updated drivers, security fixes, no > > known problem yet) > > For europeans, we may want to include the next 2.2.12 release > > since it will include a big ISDN update. > > I've put in 2.2.11 for now and have working floppies, using the stable > boot-floppies branch from CVS. > > The problem with 2.2.12 is I hear it will also have raid updates that are > not backwards compatable, require a new raidutils, etc. Probably not good > for stable. But it will have a patch for the memory leak in 2.2.11 that must > go in at least.
People using the boot-floppies will use them for a new system, so using 2.2.12 will probably not matter... > > GNOME: > > lastest 1.0.x version (version 0.3 simply doesn't work). > > Someone else will have to handle this, I think, I don't know anything about > it and it's very complex. We produced a GNOME update for slink a while ago ( = GNOME potato recompiled for slink), and nobody complained yet, so we may want to use them. (deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian/ slink main) > > Include all the fixes concerning Y2K fixes; since it's very unprobable > > that potato will be released before Y2K, this 'slink-update-1' is our last > > hope to get Y2K fixes on time. > > I looked at http://www.debian.org/y2k/ and all packages listed as OK there > are already of the same or newer versions in stable already. util-linux is > marked as "BAD?" with no explination, and perhaps we should try to get that > fixed. I'm the maintainer of util-linux and I'm not aware of this *blush*. Ok, I'll recompile util-linux for slink then... Cordialement, -- - Vincent RENARDIAS [EMAIL PROTECTED],pipo}.com,{debian,openhardware}.org} - - Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.openhardware.org Executive Linux: - - http://www.fr.debian.org Open Hardware: http://www.exelinux.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -"Microsoft est à l'informatique ce que le grumeau est à la crêpe..." -
