<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see >it in Woody in the pretty near future.
I imagine so. (It will go into unstable first, like everything else.) You can always build it from source, which a lot of people end up doing with kernels anyway. Documentation/Changes has details of what you need, and you'll only need a few upgrades from potato (modutils comes to mind). Grab those from woody. >No the next version of Potato will be 2.2r3. Won't get a new version >number till Woody goes stable. IMHO Woody should be 3.0 think about it >a new major version of X and a new major version of the Kernel. Not to >mention all of the other new stuff. I think it is time for a major >version number change. What do the rest of you think? Well, it's up to the release manager (and possibly debian-devel, but straw polls on mailing lists don't really count for very much), not even remotely debian-user. :) Remember that every Debian release has a hell of a lot of new stuff - potato was a year and a half after slink, apart from anything else. Any bumping of the version number tends to be at least in part a marketing thing (we don't have the "*.0 is randomly unstable, *.1 is OK, *.2 is fairly stable" thing that people talk about Red Hat having sometimes). I don't think it's all that important really, but generally I think that major version increments are likely to be reserved for major changes in the Debian-specific core parts of the distribution. apt was introduced in hamm (2.0), as I recall. Perhaps the release of the new Debian installer would be an appropriate milestone; last I heard, that was slated for woody+1. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
