On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:57, Frederik Schueler wrote: > today: start migration of 2.6.17 kernel and udebs to testing > > 15.09: upload 2.6.18 to unstable [1] > > 01.10: migrate 2.6.18 kernel and udebs to testing
For the first and third items above: you cannot just migrate new kernel udebs to testing. This can only be done as part of a Debian Installer release. The plan will have to be adjusted to reflect that. Migrating kernel images without the corresponding kernel udebs is not a problem. For the second and third items above: I feel that allowing only 15 days between getting 2.6.18 into unstable and migrating it to testing is unrealistically optimistic. Every recent kernel minor release has seen regressions and RC bugs that took quite a bit longer than that to get fixed and to get the kernel in a state where it would be acceptable for testing. I would prefer a plan where 2.6.18 remained in unstable a lot longer than this schedule (at least a month). For D-I we are tentatively planning a release at the end of september. It looks most likely that we should go with 2.6.17 for that. Having 2.6.18 kernel images in unstable at that time does not need to prevent that plan, as we can just postpone uploading 2.6.18 kernel udebs. We can then change D-I to start using 2.6.18 immediately after that release and try to get people to test that using daily built images on a big scale. Cheers, FJP
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