On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: > When is Debian 1.4 coming out officially? I thought Debian was now > working on roughly a three month cycle time for new releases - are we > giving up on this strategy?
Hamm (Debian 2.0) will be released when we're finished with it. It doesn't look like we'll be able to do a release before late January, possibly later. There are several reasons for the lag in development, primarily the fact that all our packages are being converted to use the new libc6 (glibc2) library instead of the old libc5. While it may appear like RedHat is moving faster, we actually have more than twice the number of packages they do. In addition, we're an entirely volunteer force, so we can't muster quite the speed as someone who is being paid to work on their upgrade full-time. You can see our work so far (which is reasonably stable) by checking out the "unstable" tree on our archives. Please read the howto available at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ before attempting to install packages from unstable however. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
