On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:12:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 11:53, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Isn't the issue regarding "a better way to do security releases" > > > one of the big reasons why v3.0 hasn't been released yet? > > > > Correct, and there's substantial work on the build daemons happening at > > That's to make the builds across all 85 platforms run more > smoothly, i.e. to get them out in a more timely manner?
Yes. I've had to do the odd security update of my own packages in the past, and I had to build packages for every architecture by hand. Finding Debian-administered machines of the right architectures on which the right build-dependencies are installed is a pain - and that was on six architectures rather than the eleven that are going to release with woody. (In fact, back then I couldn't get access to a suitable m68k system at all, and I had to wait for one of the security team to sort that out for me.) Judging from what I've heard informally, the security team don't have a significantly easier time of it at the moment, and it can take a security team member a couple of nights' work just to build packages for an advisory for potato. Although it's a shame it wasn't done earlier, I think everyone is doing the right thing in arranging that they don't have to do that kind of messing around in future. The build daemons do an extremely good job building packages on a daily basis for unstable, and they're the right tool to reuse for supporting stable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
