Re: Could the release notes for potato mention smail?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:

> > I'm the new maintainer for smail. I will soon try to fix as many bugs as
> > possible and prepare packages for potato because many people use smail. Is
> > it possible to put a note in the release notes that there will be 
> > unofficial smail packages for potato at
> > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/smail.html ?
> 
> I've just added a note to release notes about smail not being available in
> frozen, and how it can be found in unstable (this will be true soon, right?)
> or at that URL.
>...  

Thanks a lot.

I will make a new upload to unstable in a few days. The only problem
is: As soon as smail in unstable is compiled with a library not in potato
(e.g. a new version of libc6), it's more or less useless for users that
don't want to upgrade to unstable. That's why I'll offer the packages at
that URL, too. At the beginning there will be the same packages at that
URL and in unstable, but this may change later.


cu,
Adrian

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Re: Could the release notes for potato mention smail?

[Josip Rodin]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:15:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > BTW aj, as new release notes (including this and a few other important
> > changes) need to be installed in the archive, should I contact James?
> 
> Upload to incoming, and I'll tell james.

It's a bunch of files that isn't supposed to be processed by dinstall, but
installed by hand. I provided a relnotes.tar.gz with upgrade-* directories
and release-notes.* files in them, and Richard tar xzf'ed it in
dists/potato/main.

This time, though, one other manual operation should be done: documents in
upgrade-{arm,powerpc} should be moved to disks-{arm,powerpc}, respectively,
since those release notes aren't related to upgrading, just "what's new" and
"new installations" (the latter is a pointer to the Installation manual).

> Are boot-floppies dependent upon release notes?

No. (nor vice versa)

But the CD images are.

> I'm inclined to leave them as late as possible, really, so that they can
> be as complete as possible.

Well, why not have it up on the FTP site right now, so that people can check
them and report any errors?

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Re: Could the release notes for potato mention smail?

[Anthony Towns]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 05:57:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> BTW aj, as new release notes (including this and a few other important
> changes) need to be installed in the archive, should I contact James?

Upload to incoming, and I'll tell james.

Are boot-floppies dependent upon release notes? I'm inclined to leave them
as late as possible, really, so that they can be as complete as possible.

Cheers,
aj

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Re: Could the release notes for potato mention smail?

[Josip Rodin]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I'm the new maintainer for smail. I will soon try to fix as many bugs as
> possible and prepare packages for potato because many people use smail. Is
> it possible to put a note in the release notes that there will be 
> unofficial smail packages for potato at
> http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/smail.html ?

I've just added a note to release notes about smail not being available in
frozen, and how it can be found in unstable (this will be true soon, right?)
or at that URL.

BTW aj, as new release notes (including this and a few other important
changes) need to be installed in the archive, should I contact James?

-- 
Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification