Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-20 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: Which will mean that people will skip at least one distribution if we released each 6 months, even two. That would put the burden on us of needing to have security support for even 2 more distributions older than current stable, which could not be possible. ACK to t

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-17 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo schreef: El jue, 06-01-2005 a las 13:43 -0800, Will Lowe escribiÃ: Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS? Su

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jan-05, 16:47 (CST), Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the other hand -- we need to decide whether we want time-based > releases. Other projects have had great successes with them, but they > might not be right for Debian. Of course, those other projects don't have worry abou

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-11 Thread Maciej Dems
Patrzę w ekran, a to William Ballard pisze do mnie: > .1 Releases aren't for adding functionality which was created after > the .0 release. It's for finishing the stuff you postponed doing > so you could ship. So why is the Sarge to be 3.1? I think that it differs so much from Woody (take only t

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Marcelo E. Magallon" | Are you thinking of say, the installer? I certainly *hope* that the | installer is going to stay in the current status for at least another | release! Another "whoos, let us restart from scratch" won't be | welcome by anyone. And my hope is based on the fact that t

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Weimer wrote: > > Re: Paul van der Vlis in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> You will understand that my most important point is security-support. > > > > ...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, even > > if the last stable release was ages ago. > > Where is the security su

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 08 January 2005 07:45, Christian Perrier wrote: > So, if we imagine we release sarge at February 1st (ahah), just > immediately announce that etch will enter the first freeze stages > (base packages frozen, testing-security checked, d-i frozen) on August > 1st. > > This will give a

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Thing> has a release cycle that's not compatible with a 6 month release > period"? Say GNOME or KDE? Well, gets in the next > release. So simple. We are known for missing upstream releases by a > hair (sarge is almost c

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:46:00PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > We don't have to go from X.0 to (X+1).0 in 6 months. It's > > perfectly ok to go from X.0 to X.1. > > .1 Releases aren't for adding functionality whic

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Zimmerman: > Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every > half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production > systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS? Testing costs time and therefore money. Debian's secret corporat

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:22:47PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > We don't have to go from X.0 to (X+1).0 in 6 months. It's perfectly ok > to go from X.0 to X.1. .1 Releases aren't for adding functionality which was created after the .0 release. It's for finishing the stuff you postponed

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:50:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Yes, I don't think the release team has any intention of working > itself ragged to get a second release out 6 months after sarge. I > also don't think there's any consensus among developers (or users) > that we *want* to relea

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-08 Thread Christian Perrier
> A 6-month period honestly doesn't allow us much time for new development > anyway. If all we wanted was a point release of sarge, that'd be fine; but > I think most people would like to see etch be an improvement over sarge in > more respects than just hardware driver count, and we have to be re

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:50:04 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, I don't think the release team has any intention of working itself >ragged to get a second release out 6 months after sarge. I also don't think >there's any consensus among developers (or users) that we *want* to re

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El vie, 07-01-2005 a las 20:34 +1000, Anthony Towns escribiÃ: > Someone should patch Thunderbird so it handles M-F-T:. Grump. > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >>Packages qualify to be enter prestable after residing in testing for > >>ten days and having NO RC BUGS. The idea is to keep prestable in a >

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El jue, 06-01-2005 a las 13:43 -0800, Will Lowe escribiÃ: > > Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every > > half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production > > systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS? > > Sure I do. But I

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:06:20AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:31:41 +1100, Andrew Pollock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That said, this (rather large) blocker shouldn't be the issue it has been > >for this release for the next one. The two biggest blockers to releasing any >

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Anthony Towns
Someone should patch Thunderbird so it handles M-F-T:. Grump. Wouter Verhelst wrote: Packages qualify to be enter prestable after residing in testing for ten days and having NO RC BUGS. The idea is to keep prestable in a highly stable state at all times, a rolling stable if you will. That's how tes

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:08:05PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:34:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time > > > it takes for a new stable version. > > > What about saying something like: the n

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-07 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:00:32 +0100, Jan Niehusmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point. But that problem can be solved by some program checking that > all installed packages are actually available from the selected > distribution(s). > > That could be integrated into apt (e.g. apt-get upgrade w

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
> Is that really true? I would love to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" every > half a year. Currently it doesn't get me much. :) Now, for production > systems, don't you do some testing *before* you upgrade the OS? Sure I do. But I run a production environment with several hundred machines in it. W

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Frederic Peters
Marc Sherman wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that > >will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to > >make it (or another tool) download the changelogs and email you any > >new ones? > > I just filed a

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Stephen Birch
Ken Bloom([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 09:10: . > There's a discussion of release proposals ongoing at > http://wiki.debian.net/?ReleaseProposals > Please look around there to see what's going on and understand the ideas > that have been proposed. Thanks for the pointer ... reading thro

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:51:21AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > That would leave testing users who happen to have such a package > installed alone because they wouldn't notice their package vanishing > from the mirrors, continuing to use a potentially vulnerable package. Good point. But that problem

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:31:06 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You wrote: >> ahh .. I take your point. What about the idea of identifying a list of >> release essential (RE) packages? > >I like that idea. We could even have a system to automagically throw >buggy non-RE packages out o

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:18:37 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Joey Hess: >> I think we've taken this "security bugs arn't fixed in testing as well >> as in stable" thing as gospel a little too long without verifying it >> lately. I've been checking and if testing is lagging stabl

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:31:41 +1100, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That said, this (rather large) blocker shouldn't be the issue it has been >for this release for the next one. The two biggest blockers to releasing any >time soon have been the installer and the security infrastructure. I

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 05-Jan 09:30, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El mié, 05-01-2005 a las 04:16 -0800, Stephen Birch escribió: > > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: > > > Hello, > > > > > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > > > takes for a new stable ve

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 04-Jan 09:45, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 04-Jan-05, 07:40 (CST), Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > > takes for a new stable version. > > If you want Ubuntu or Progeny, you know where[1] to find them. :-) >

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 20:25 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Marcelo > > [0] Besides learning that there is still people in this world who seem > to think that feminism is actually a solution to something. I am > still amazed by that one. Not trying to start a subthread, but prob

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 05-01-2005 a las 23:13 +, Matthew Garrett escribiÃ: > Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree with you on this. People using stable can not cope with > > upgrades each 6 months or so. > > The issue isn't the frequency of new stable releases - the issue is how

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with you on this. People using stable can not cope with > upgrades each 6 months or so. The issue isn't the frequency of new stable releases - the issue is how long a given stable release will be supported for. Releasing every 6 months

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 05-01-2005 a las 04:16 -0800, Stephen Birch escribiÃ: > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: > > Hello, > > > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > > takes for a new stable version. > > I guess one man's meat is another man's poison.

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:18:37PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Joey Hess: > > I think we've taken this "security bugs arn't fixed in testing as well > > as in stable" thing as gospel a little too long without verifying it > > lately. I've been checking and if testing is lagging stable at all,

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:07:41AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:22: > > You should ask the release managers about that. > Wow!! You mean the decision process is not made public? I would have > thought it would be out in the open for all to see. H

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Weimer wrote: > I think that's because of the pending release, in particular frozen > base packages, and not representative for the whole release cycle. There's some truth to that, but of course many of our worst dependency knots do not involve base packages. -- see shy jo signature.as

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread roberto
Quoting Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > > >That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that > > >will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to > > >make it (or another tool) download th

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:30:52PM -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > >That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that > >will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to > >make it (or another tool) download the changelogs and email you any > >new ones? > > I j

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Marc Sherman
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > That makes me wonder. I know that there are tools like cron-apt that will perform apt-related tasks through cron jobs. Is there a way to make it (or another tool) download the changelogs and email you any new ones? I just filed a wishlist on cron-apt about that same thing

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:16:49 -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: >> Hello, >> >> One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it >> takes for a new stable version. > > I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. > > Sinc

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Josh Metzler
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:58 pm, Neil McGovern wrote: > Recently, I did have a box rooted. This was due to a user running phpbb > on the system, without me knowing, despite the policy of no software > without clearance from me. My I ask, how did the attacker get root? Did the user have root a

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:07:41AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:22: > > > > You should ask the release managers about that. > > > > Wow!! You mean the decision process is not made public? I would have > thought it would be out in the open for all t

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:11:44AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > OK, exactly what are YOU NOT DOING, now? Come on, I know you CAN'T be > that busy. You only maintain a few trivial packages... come on you could > NMU the kernel-source-2.[4|6] fixing all th issues. No need to MMU. The debian-kern

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Stephen Birch
Bas Zoetekouw([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:31: > > I like that idea. We could even have a system to automagically throw > buggy non-RE packages out of testing. > That wouldn't be a bad idea at all. In the recent DPL interview: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/2023223 Martin

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Stephen Birch
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 14:22: > > You should ask the release managers about that. > Wow!! You mean the decision process is not made public? I would have thought it would be out in the open for all to see. Mind you, Debian seems to be a hotbed of emotion at times so perhaps

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Stephen! You wrote: > ahh .. I take your point. What about the idea of identifying a list of > release essential (RE) packages? I like that idea. We could even have a system to automagically throw buggy non-RE packages out of testing. -- Kind regards, +-

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:12:57AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46: > > That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because > > a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to > > testing > >anymore, and when it finally

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joey Hess: > I think we've taken this "security bugs arn't fixed in testing as well > as in stable" thing as gospel a little too long without verifying it > lately. I've been checking and if testing is lagging stable at all, it's > doing so by a much smaller amount than we've traditionally thoug

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Stephen Birch
Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46: > That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because > a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to > testing >anymore, and when it finally did, the changes were so dramatic >that >testing was broken for

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 10:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 04, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It shouldn't be forgotten that the biggest blocker after these things is > > probably a general failure to actually care all that much. How many > > people are actually behaving as

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:16:49AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Perhaps a date based release mechanism could be built using a new > distribution, call it prestable. > > Packages qualify to be enter prestable after residing in testing for > ten days and having NO RC BUGS. The idea is to keep prest

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Stephen Birch
Paul van der Vlis([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-04 14:40: > Hello, > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > takes for a new stable version. I guess one man's meat is another man's poison. Since I administer a large number of distant computers I view the long time

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Jan Niehusmann wrote: > Unfortunately, testing does not guarantee security updates. Of course given the security+woody tagged RC bugs #237422, #246443, #274225, #278625, #278942, #284031, #192732, #196590, #198567, #199351, #202244, #223456, #244810, #244811, #250106, #260508, #260838, #268783, #2

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Helen Faulkner
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: [...] [0] Besides learning that there is still people in this world who seem to think that feminism is actually a solution to something. I am still amazed by that one. Thankyou for reminding us all, by demonstration, that the problems feminism tries to solve

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stopping releasing might be a good idea but there should be a better >way. IMO the problem is the stable release isn't updated on a regulare >basis. It might be a better idea to divide Debian into subsystems which >could be relea

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 04, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It shouldn't be forgotten that the biggest blocker after these things is > probably a general failure to actually care all that much. How many > people are actually behaving as if a release is just around the corner? A very simple way would b

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:54:51PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:25:29PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > We've spent most of the past year thinking a release might be just round > > the corner. We can only cry wolf so many times before the world stops > > believing

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:25:29PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > We've spent most of the past year thinking a release might be just > round the corner. We can only cry wolf so many times before the world > stops believing us and finds an option that actually works. You ought to hear the j

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:34:20PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time > > it takes for a new stable version. > > > > What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in > > the beginning of 2006? > > The relea

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:35:37PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > It shouldn't be forgotten that the biggest blocker after these things > is probably a general failure to actually care all that much. How > many people are actually behaving as if a release is just around the > corner? How can

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:41:41PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > ...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, > even if the last stable release was ages ago. How does a fixed > release date help there? Besides Florian's point, you have to consider that Debian needs peopl

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:45:12PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >I subscribe to debian-security (+ d-s-announce) and get reports whenever > >there's anything released. > >I know what is installed on my boxes, so I know if this announcement > >affects me. > > > You are probably in the minority, t

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:58:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would strongly caution against using Sarge for a production system until there is security team support. See this message I posted to d-u when someone pointed out that they were running sarge on some servers:

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:25:29PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > We've spent most of the past year thinking a release might be just round > the corner. We can only cry wolf so many times before the world stops > believing us and finds an option that actually works. I started using Linux (and D

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:35:37PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That said, this (rather large) blocker shouldn't be the issue it has > > been for this release for the next one. The two biggest blockers to > > releasing any time soon have been the ins

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Neil McGovern
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:58:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would strongly caution against using Sarge for a production system > until there is security team support. See this message I posted to d-u > when someone pointed out that they were running sarge on some servers: > > http:/

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, this (rather large) blocker shouldn't be the issue it has been > for this release for the next one. The two biggest blockers to releasing any > time soon have been the installer and the security infrastructure. I'm > actually not abreast of wh

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:25:00PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > >At least that's been the case including sarge. Hence, such > > >a sentence would not mean anything. > > > > > >>I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready", but > > >>many people

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:58 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well, you could argue that debian branches are not perfectly named but: > > "stable" is best if you need *absolute* failsafety for critical jobs > > "testing" is best if you want a stable s

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > > takes for a new stable version. > > > > What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the > > beginning of 2

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mason Loring Bliss] > Ooh... This is arguably the most exciting Debian-related thing I've > heard of in some time! A security team for Sarge. Dreamy! Thank you. But it is not for sarge. It is for testing. When sarge is released, the team will move on to sarge+1. :) Joey Hess is the coordinato

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:15:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > This may change with a testing-security upload queue. > > Yes. The testing security team might help here too. > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/secure-testing/>. Ooh... This is arguably the most exciting Debian-related

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seriously. There's just no way you're going to change the way Debian > > makes releases, or rather, doesn't. It's too big, and there are just > > too damn many people involved, many of whom simply don't care about > > releases. As long as we maintain our cu

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:17 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Martin Schulze schreef: > > Paul van der Vlis wrote: [...] > > At least that's been the case including sarge. Hence, such > > a sentence would not mean anything. > > > >>I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready"

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Jan Niehusmann] > Unfortunately, testing does not guarantee security updates. Sure, > one day the updates will promote from unstable to testing. But this > can take a long time, if, for example, some dependencies block the > new version from testing. > > This may change with a testing-security up

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:31:26PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: > stuff. If I needed something more production-ready, I'd use testing > because you have (almost) garantee that the software will work and you > will have security updates, too. (But not in the same quality as Unfortunately, testin

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Jollans
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it takes for a new stable version. What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the beginning of 2006? I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready", but

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Tim Cutts
On 4 Jan 2005, at 3:45 pm, Steve Greenland wrote: On 04-Jan-05, 07:40 (CST), Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it takes for a new stable version. If you want Ubuntu or Progeny, you know where[1] to find them. :-) Serious

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-Jan-05, 07:40 (CST), Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > takes for a new stable version. If you want Ubuntu or Progeny, you know where[1] to find them. :-) Seriously. There's just no way you're going to cha

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Martin Schulze schreef: Paul van der Vlis wrote: At least that's been the case including sarge. Hence, such a sentence would not mean anything. I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready", but many people have to work together. Maybe it's better to say: "a package releases

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >At least that's been the case including sarge. Hence, such > >a sentence would not mean anything. > > > >>I can understand something like "Debian releases when it's ready", but > >>many people have to work together. Maybe it's better to say: "a package > >>releases wh

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Martin Schulze schreef: Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it takes for a new stable version. What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the beginning of 2006? The release date for a Debian release is not set

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christoph Berg: > Re: Paul van der Vlis in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> You will understand that my most important point is security-support. > > ...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, even > if the last stable release was ages ago. Where is the security support for woody's

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Paul van der Vlis in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You will understand that my most important point is security-support. ...which Debian provides for its stable distribution at any time, even if the last stable release was ages ago. How does a fixed release date help there? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > One of the biggest disadvantages of Debian for me is the long time it > takes for a new stable version. > > What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the > beginning of 2006? The release date for a Debian release is not set by a ca

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 04, Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about saying something like: the next stable release comes in the > beginning of 2006? Sure, here it is: "the next stable release comes in the beginning of 2006". Do you feel better now? HTH, HAND. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc De