> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:15:10 -0600
> From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>
> To: LFS Developers Mailinglist <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
> Subject: [lfs-dev] Are we ready for LFS-7.5?
>
> The commit for -rc1 was on Feb 16.  Since then there have been text 
> changes plus the following:
>
> Update kmod to install man pages properly.
> Delete symlinks in /usr and add /usr/libexec.
> Add a patch for glibc FHS issues.
>
> There is also ticket #3705.  It really looks like a user error to me, 


'3507' ?


> but I'm inclined to not address it now and add an erratum later if 
> necessary.
>
> BLFS is not yet read and will take a few more days to get the 30 or so 
> packages not yet tested done.
>
> So the questions is whether we should release 7.5 tomorrow or not.  We 
> could wait for BLFS, but I'm not sure that's really necessary.
>


Extra-'publicity', for the staggered release?


Also, it'd seem to make sense to release LFS when it's ready, then BLFS
(hopefully within ~~3-4 weeks) when _it's_ ready.


> Note: I predicted 4-6 new LFS packages released during the package 
> freeze.  I underestimated.  There are seven, but the kernel, man-pages, 
> grep, and systemd have all had two releases in the last two weeks.
>


Maybe vindicates not doing late-adoptions, if they'd bugfixes released in
such short order.



akh





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