Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-15 Thread Guillermo Garron
All my 3 current Debian installs were originally installed from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms, using the 2.4 bf kernel. Then installed the 2.4.27 kernel to try and get some sounds working. Sarge was still in testing at the time. I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Sarge. IIRC the first Woody upgr

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:14:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > installation reports: > > > > reportbug installation > > > > upgrade reports: > > > > reportbug upgrade-reports > > Please don't file bug reports on "installation", "install", "installer", > or other n

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > installation reports: > > reportbug installation > > upgrade reports: > > reportbug upgrade-reports Please don't file bug reports on "installation", "install", "installer", or other names that people like to make up. Every single one has to be tracked down and man

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Just enter "reportbug other" and it will show you the entire listing of packages. nice. It's pretty interesting how much a person can learn from man pages isn't it? To tell the trut

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Just enter "reportbug other" and it will show you the entire listing of > packages. nice. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:24:27PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, > > > Hi Andrew, > > Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better > known, there

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:24 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, Hi Andrew, Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better kno

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:24 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, > > > Hi Andrew, > > Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better > known, there might be

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, Hi Andrew, Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better known, there might be more useful bug reports... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread KS
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > If on the average one RC bug is fixed per day, it still takes 3 months for > Etch to be released. This is just an estimate. But you didn't take into account new RC bugs being filed! The RC bug number has been hovering around the 100 mark (usually above it) since No

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:08:55PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > > > upgraded to u

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > > upgraded to udev a 2.6.12 (or higher) kernel prior to doing an apt-get > > dist-up

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > upgraded to udev a 2.6.12 (or higher) kernel prior to doing an apt-get > dist-upgrade. It does fall over due to the changeover to udev and > troubles u

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Stef Daniels VK5HSX
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:52 -0800, Victor Muchica wrote: > It will take its time, maybe march or april, DD are doing a great > work, trying to fix all the bugs. > Currently Im using testing on my Desktop PC. > > In the past some month ago I try to made an apt-get dist-upgrade, form > sarge to etch

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
michael bailey wrote: > > Does anyone have a good idea of when the release of > stable Etch is likely ? Is there any chance that it > will be released in February or is March a more > realistic date? > I would say that is really optimistic. But dont hold me up on that. &g

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/07 07:52), Victor Muchica wrote: > It will take its time, maybe march or april, DD are doing a great > work, trying to fix all the bugs. > Currently Im using testing on my Desktop PC. > > In the past some month ago I try to made an apt-get dist-upgrade, form > sarge to etch, but too many

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Victor Muchica
On 13 feb, 10:30, michael bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a good idea of when the release of > stable Etch is likely ? Is there any chance that it > will be released in February or is March a more > realistic date? > > I notice from the Feb 9th B

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:18 -0800, michael bailey wrote: > Does anyone have a good idea of when the release of > stable Etch is likely ? Is there any chance that it > will be released in February or is March a more > realistic date? > > I notice from the Feb 9th Bug rep

Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread michael bailey
Does anyone have a good idea of when the release of stable Etch is likely ? Is there any chance that it will be released in February or is March a more realistic date? I notice from the Feb 9th Bug report that there are still 104 release critical bugs to fix