Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Steve Langasek wrote: >> The preferred tool is aptitude. > > This is not a matter for you to decide by fiat. The tools recommended in > the release notes should be the ones that work most reliably for > dist-upgrading from the previous release. Based on various upgrade reports > I've seen over t

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:07:28PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Adeodato Simó writes: > >>> Upgrades [… are automatically handled by the aptitude package > >>> management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree > >>> also by the apt-get package managemen

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ben Finney wrote: > Adeodato Simó writes: > >>> Upgrades [… are automatically handled by the aptitude package >>> management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree >>> also by the apt-get package management tool. >> This should be consistent with the Release Notes. I haven't been >

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Finney
Adeodato Simó writes: > > Upgrades [… are automatically handled by the aptitude package > > management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree > > also by the apt-get package management tool. > > This should be consistent with the Release Notes. I haven't been > tracking the releva

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-02-09, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --040603030801070601030404 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > [ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of >

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl dijo [Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:15:23AM +0100]: > (...) > Umh... This paragraph seems to clump together very disparate concepts. Yes, they are installer-related - Maybe it should be rephrased +- this way: The installer for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has received a major

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Graham Cobb
On Monday 09 February 2009 13:19:06 Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Support for Macromedias Flash format is available via the swfdec plugin. > > Should Gnash be mentioned here? Is it ready for such a high profile > mention? (Maintainers Bcc'ed.) I believe this would have to be (replace (R) with the regis

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hey, Alexander, thanks for your work here! Some minor comments follow: > supports a total of eleven processor architectures As per Riku's comment about armel being missing, this should be 12. > A total of eleven architectures are supported including: Same here. > Support for Macromedias Flash

Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of the current state ] Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from ready :( Especially the second and third paragraph