Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread John Griffiths
> >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 an

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I'm hardly an expert.. but wasn't 3.0 waiting for the 3.0 kernel? > >I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but >it would make sense to do it that way. No, kernel versions have nothing to do with it, and I dou

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
<[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 anywa

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Percival
I had not heard that they where tracking kernel numbers but it would make sense to do it that way. -- Original Message -- From: John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:26:51 +1100 >At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival wrote: >>I ha

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread John Griffiths
At 08:13 PM 1/4/2001 -0700, Ray Percival 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. 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 i

Re: 2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread Ray Percival
I have no idea where it will go first but I would think we should see it in Woody in the pretty near future. 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 o

2.4 kernel release

2001-01-04 Thread John Griffiths
With slashdot trumpeting the release of the 2.4 kernel i was wonderng if anyone can tell me where it will fit in the debian plan? Will it go into "testing" or be put off into the broader Unstable? or can it slot stright into the next Potato 2.2r3? (or would that be potato 2.4?) Cheers John