On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:14:54AM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > All boot-floppies are ready (except ARM, but that's an opaque thing :), and > > the CD images have been created. So, we can test potato installation and > > upgrade with those. > > As advertised on cdimage.debian.org, there are (still) _NO_ official CD images > of the first test cycle. > > The reason is that we are still WAITING for several things to happen. We are > not going to release officially broken CDs, because broken CDs can't be > evaluated.
That's a bit of a Catch-22, because everyone else is WAITING for the CD images. > This is my current WaitingFor list: (comments are welcome!) My first comment is that this is the first I've heard of this list. m68k: > - 2.2.13 floppies install I did this just now. > - upgrade-alpha install (see #63890) > - upgrade-i386 install (see #63890) > - upgrade-m68k install (see #63890) > - upgrade-sparc install (see #63890) As you have guessed, a signature from a Debian developer is necessary to get something into the archive. The main exception is stuff the archive maintainers can review for themselves, such as documentation and small scripts. > (Confirmed 05/13) What does this mean? > - apt 0.3.19 install ppc > - libc6 re-upload & re-install sparc > - libc6-dev, 2.1.3-10.1 upload & install Installing these will invalidate the boot-floppies we already have. Please get in touch with the boot-floppies team if you think the current ones are not useful even for the first test cycle. > arm ??? > - floppies ??? > ARM will not release with 2.2 as there is no way to install it. > Maybe 2.2.1 if people are providing boot-stuff. Yes, they are rather late with their boot-floppies. But I see 2.2.14 ones for ARM in Incoming now. This is still a problem because it's a binary upload and the boot-floppies source is still at 2.2.13. There have been a lot of communication problems with the ARM porters; I hope they can work out this one. > We will NOT be releasing official CD images before all this has been resolved. > (And yes, it's me who controls that, since I'm the webmaster of > cdimage.debian.org.) Perhaps we should find someone else to do that, since you're obviously on a power trip. I don't see how you got that job without being a Debian developer in the first place. > I'd finally like to see some action from ftpmaster/release manager (i.e. > dark). He's being _extremely_ communicative to us CD people :-( Why, thank you. I should note that I am _not_ ftpmaster, however. I am a member of a team of five archive maintainers, and currently a mostly inactive member because I'm busy being release manager. Richard Braakman
