On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:23:51PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I suspect that the very last NMUs are going up, the images are being > > readied and press-statements released: I would expect within the next 3 > > days. > > What makes you say all this? On 5/1 or so, AJT announced that woody was > all set, and that the only thing holding up the release was the lack of > a build infrastructure for the security team. There has since been no > public announcement regarding the status of such an infrastructure. It > may well take them some time to get the new system up and running. > > Unfortunately, this problem didn't receive widespread attention until it > was too late to get it addressed in time for the release. Part of this > actually my fault, as I was previously tasked with implementing such a > build infrastructure. However, my efforts met with some tough > resistance by certain members of the sysadmin team who didn't like a > particular component of the software that the security team was used to > using to create builds. But nobody was willing to provide a > replacement, and I didn't have time to create one myself, and this issue > got ignored for far too long.
Fair enough I am wrong. I had seen the reports about the security updates problem but was unaware of the size of the problem. I'm sorry if I misled anyone. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: The Token fell out of the ring. Call us when you find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
