Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:28:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I hope very soon; I have OOM killer fixes (purely functional issues, >> i.e. refcounting mm's) waiting for 2.4.28-pre1. On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:37:40PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > anything more precise than soon ? We need

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:20:09PM +, Thomas Skybakmoen wrote: >> Here goes the forth 2.4.27 release candidate. >> It includes a dozen of USB fixes, JFS update, IA64 fixes, >> networking update, amongst others. >> 2.4.27 final should be out soon. On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:29:34PM +0200, Sven

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Thomas Skybakmoen
What is discussed here, should not this apply to kernel 2.4.27 wich is soon out the door as well, also has had a looong test run, yes know it`s summer, but 2.6 and 2.4- what`s comming seems like better than 2.4.26 and 2.6.7, and yes one can always go on and say the next will be better d`oh, but

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Thomas Skybakmoen
What is discussed here, should not this apply to kernel 2.4.27 wich is soon out the door as well, also has had a looong test run, yes know it`s summer, but 2.6 and 2.4- what`s comming seems like better than 2.4.26 and 2.6.7, and yes one can always go on and say the next will be better d`oh, but

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:28:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:20:09PM +, Thomas Skybakmoen wrote: > >> Here goes the forth 2.4.27 release candidate. > >> It includes a dozen of USB fixes, JFS update, IA64 fixes, > >> networking update, amongst others. > >>

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:20:09PM +, Thomas Skybakmoen wrote: > What is discussed here, should not this apply to kernel 2.4.27 wich is soon Well, i (and probably the rest of the debian-kernel team) care only little about 2.4 kernels, but sure you have a point. > out the door as well, also h

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
leasing rc2, or by requesting that the FTP Masters > >> special-case kernel-*2.6.8* stuff. Which of these seems like the > >> easier, foolproof way to do things? :) > > > > ftp-masters special casing 2.6.8. But an upload to experimental would be > > still

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Andres Salomon
easier, foolproof way to do things? :) > > ftp-masters special casing 2.6.8. But an upload to experimental would be > still good to help pave the way to the real release, and given the > current subversion build system and small patches, there may even be > chance that the 2.6.8 releas

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:40:57AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:16:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Planning to violate the release schedule is not encouraged. > > > No, but let's be realist. The woody release schedule was also announced in a > > hurry (of the no i

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:16:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Planning to violate the release schedule is not encouraged. > No, but let's be realist. The woody release schedule was also announced in a > hurry (of the no info for month, and then we freeze tomorrow), and then we > waited almost t

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
lf weeks total before > > > the packages enter testing, and that's assuming > > > > a) 2.6.8 release happens within a week > > > b) it takes 2 weeks to get out of NEW > > > With proper cooperation from the ftp-masters, this could happen much > > fa

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:09:56AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > After chatting w/ some of the -boot people on IRC, I'm unconvinced that 2 > > weeks is enough time. We're talking about 4 and a half weeks total before > > the packages enter testing, and that'

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:55:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:54:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > the revision or the version is about the same amount of work to get it > > > being used. So no gain there. > > > > And its too late for d-i anyway, was probably

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 08:54:08AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > the revision or the version is about the same amount of work to get it > > being used. So no gain there. > > And its too late for d-i anyway, was probably already last week. Even my > 2.6.7-4 .udeb kernels didn't make it in. Well,

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
n > > Jun 25 kernel-image-2.6.7-i386 uploaded > > Jul 02 kernel-source-2.6.7 and kernel-image-2.6.7-i386 accepted > > Jul 04 kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc accepted > > > > All in all, I would suggest to just forget this -rc business. > > > > Regards, Je

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:51:20AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:57:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> At some point in the past, I wrote: > >> >> The 2.6.8 rele

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-01 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:57:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> At some point in the past, I wrote: >> >> The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization. >> >> I highly recommend a

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:57:40AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > At some point in the past, I wrote: > >> The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization. > >> I highly recommend adopting as much of 2.6.8 as possible if not the > >>

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-01 Thread William Lee Irwin III
At some point in the past, I wrote: >> The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization. >> I highly recommend adopting as much of 2.6.8 as possible if not the >> whole delta between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8. If not incrementing the version >> number aft

Re: 2.6.8 release

2004-08-01 Thread Sven Luther
ix release, as it was claimed by Christoph and William, then > > upgrading to 2.6.8 should just be a replacement of the package which would > > have zero influence on the rest of the base system, as opposed to changing a > > base library which would mean lot of incompatibility in othe