On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 23:13, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 10-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > I have started reading details about Woody. (I am running Potato on all > > of my machines with the 2.4 kernel). > > > > I was surprise to see that the 2.4 kernel is "optional". This leads me > > to a fundamental question... What makes Woody different? > > > > Are there structure changes (layout, etc.) that are incompatible with > > Potato? If not, why not just keep upgrading the packages. > > > > 2.4 is the default though, you still have the choice of using 2.2. > > Woody is roughly 2 years worth of new code. That is the big difference. XFr > ee 4.x not 3.3.x, etc. >
So, instead of looking at Debian as a bunch of interesting packages running on top of a kernel, I should view each release as a stable set of packages that all are known to work together. And that to get a release (such as Woody) ready for release this involves: * Release/Install processes, packages, and procedures are updated and stabilized. * New target kernel features are determined and stabilized * Packages are stabilized against the new target kernel feature set. * Bugs and incompatibilities resulting from packages working together are identified and fixed. Is this a good way to view things? Randy