Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The users, on the other hand, often need CD images and mostly use stable. > At this time, though, there just are not enough maintainers to properly > support stable. And getting updates to the boot-floppies rejected because > they are not security related neither helps the users nor improves my > motivation to invest further work into an apparently futile effort that > I'm not over likely to benefit from.
I don't know who said this. I have been told by Richard Braakman that fixes and feature changes of any sort which make instalation easier and better can be allowed into stable system. I believe it's critical to allow us to continue to improve boot-floppies for a stable platform even after stable has been released. It's critical because if users don't have any easy time completing the installation system, the Debian loses big time. On a personal note, I'd like to confirm that when Michael was the active m68k porter, it was very very easy and constructive working with him. I believe that m68k boot-floppies is especially frustrating because it depends on image processing and 3rd-party (or sometimes, Mac-based) utilities which are not part of Debian. So he gets extra kudos for that. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
