Martin Schulze wrote: > . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet. Freezing the distribution > without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which > would be a very bad idea. Adam di Carlo today told me that he > doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before > January. (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say > anything about that.)
We've already done successful (nfs!) installs with the potato boot floppies, though there are of course glitches. > . I still haven't seen an announcement what to do with the FHS > transition This is going to be in the next version of policy, which Julian Gilbey is working on now. It simply includes the Tech Ctte's decision. > Therefore I propose to postpone the freeze (and the release) for at > least two months, hoping to get the FHS issue, Incoming and > boot-floppies resolved. I would much rather go to a slushy freeze now and make it a more solid freeze when some of these issues have had time to be worked on more. Delaying the freeze is just going to let other issues develop. -- see shy jo
