Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
> > > > Some users, I guess some developpers and contributors, and at > > > > least myself, find it very demotivating to think that a new > > > > release means that nothing will happen anymore in Debian > > > > stable in the next 24 months. > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > If

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:08:08PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Some users, I guess some developpers and contributors, and at > > > least myself, find it very demotivating to think that a new release > > > means that nothing will happen anymore

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Some users, I guess some developpers and contributors, and at > > least myself, find it very demotivating to think that a new release > > means that nothing will happen anymore in Debian stable in the next 24 > > months. > > If that is really the

Re: Why was etch released as stable if it still has bugs?

2007-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
[debian-release is not a discussion list; cc:ing to debian-project, please respect M-F-T (if mutt doesn't eat my setting again).] On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:22:46AM -0700, Seth Lang wrote: > By definition I thought release-critical to mean that > it was critical for these bugs to be fixed before t

Re: Debian 4.0 finally arrives... does anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:56:52AM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Yo! > > > > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5673962628.html > > > > Merely somebody who likes Fedora and (Open)SuSE better than Debian, or > > somebody who ha

Re: Debian 4.0 finally arrives... does anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:19:03AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5673962628.html > > Merely somebody who likes Fedora and (Open)SuSE better than Debian, or > somebody who has a realistic view of the world? While I'm personally happy > to use etch,

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:34:47AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > There is one fact that I find very true in this article (which > in general takes an unnecessary polemic tone). > > Some users, I guess some developpers and contributors, and at > least myself, find it ver

Re: ideas....

2007-04-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +0100, John Watson wrote: > Some fantastic ideas > > > First of all I would like to say how great Debian is as a operating system > and a linux distro. I have tried many distribution but always come back to > Debian. What I find wrong with these so called distr