On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > How big is the chance that we will have another ABI change during > sarge's lifetime (100%?). So it can't hurd to figure out the problems > with that now independently of our decision in this matter...
Absolutely. It's bound to happen again. We also need to figure out how to do driver updates during sarge's lifetime. I suspect virtually everybody has had the experience of trying to install woody on a new PC. Some of the problems I remember: - new PCI IDs for the eepro100 driver - i830 chipset not supported (also needed new X) Does d-i have an option to insert a driver disc (floppy or cdrom) or ability to grab a new module package from the net (suboptimal as it may be the network driver that's missing)? Either that, or we need to commit to a 6-month release goal for etch and future releases. Which wouldn't suck, we used to do it... Buzz (1.1): June 1996 Rex (1.2): December 1996 (6 months) Bo (1.3): June 1997 (6 months) Hamm (2.0): July 1998 (13 months) Slink (2.1): March 1999 (9 months) Potato (2.2): August 2000 (17 months) Woody (3.0): July 2002 (23 months) Sarge (3.1): ? (32 months and counting) -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
