Oing debian-release, as to get them in the loop of this discussion. > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:33:42AM +0000, Thomas Skybakmoen wrote: > >> Like that the base freeze is today? > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 02:10:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the fact that the kernels are or not part of base (or at least the > > base > > freeze) is still undecided. > > Also, the main point would be to know if us moving to 2.6.8 from 2.6.7 will > > have any significant influence on the rest of the base system. If 2.6.8 is > > mostly a bugfix release, as it was claimed by Christoph and William, then > > upgrading to 2.6.8 should just be a replacement of the package which would > > have zero influence on the rest of the base system, as opposed to changing a > > base library which would mean lot of incompatibility in other packages. > > Christoph, William, any comment on those. > > The 2.6.8 release has been almost exclusively focused on stabilization. > I highly recommend adopting as much of 2.6.8 as possible if not the > whole delta between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8. If not incrementing the version > number after freeze is the primary constraint, I'd literally recommend > just marking the delta to reach virgin 2.6.8 as an add-on patch in the > 2.6.7-deb repository while leaving the version number intact.
I don't understand this, what would be the gain over doing real 2.6.8 packages ? Friendly, Sven Luther
