Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: >> N-117 = Mon 30 Jul 06: freeze essential toolchain, kernels > > Why do you put the kernel together with the essential toolchain freeze, it > should be together with the rest of base, i believe. > >> N-110 = Mon 7 Aug 06: freeze base, non-essential toolchain (including >> e.g. cdbs) >> N-105 = Mon 14 Aug 06: d-i RC [directly after base freeze] >> N-45 = Wed 18 Oct 06: general freeze [about 2 months after base >> freeze, d-i RC] >> N = Mon 4 Dec 06: release [1.5 months for the general freeze] > > We will have a kernel which is outdated by two versions at release time with > this plan, since there are about 1 kernel upstream release every 2 month. > > So, we will be asking the question about the upgradability of the kernel later > during this release process, and i believe that it is not something which > should be ignored. Already you are considering upgrading the sarge kernel > which has some trouble booting on a rather non-negligible quantity of > hardware, so having a two version outdated kernel at release time is not nice. > > Already it should be possible, provided the d-i guys get their act together, > to have a new d-i .udeb sets within 48 hours or less of a new upstream kernel > release, altough the image build may take longer, and we hope to get the > external modules and patches streamlined by then. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther
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