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