Debian Freeze Process Update

snotty6969 writes: "Freeze Update. Anthony Towns sent in an updated report about the Woody freeze process. We're almost into the last week for uploads of base packages. If there are outstanding bugs you'd like to see fixed, provide patches or upload now. We are also getting into the last days for ensuring that standard and task packages get included in the Woody release. At the moment it looks like a lot of packages will be removed from Woody. Among these are a whole bunch of commonly used programs like gpm, Mutt, CVS, Procmail, Apache and Mozilla. People who can fix bugs in these packages and care about them are encouraged to send in patches or upload fixed packages using Anthony's unofficial NMU guidelines."

Comments

What the hell is going on?

[Anonymous Coward]

If history repeats itself, Debian users are going to be stuck with whatever software versions Debian freezes on for a couple years. That's no exaggeration. Potato, the current stable, came out in 1999, and the only things that change in point releases are a few security and stability bits.

The only real alternative for a Debian user is to run unstable (slushy, which is currently Woody, is a joke, where virtually nothing is installable) . Unstable breaks something critical once a week or so, i.e. the mouse driver (last week) or XFree86 (the week before), or even ldap, leaving you having to reboot -s.

Why the hell would they freeze just before emacs21 goes in, just before KDE 2.2.2 goes in, just before ALSA goes good, etc etc?

It's like they were waiting for the worst possible moment to ensure that Debian users would have to wait as long as bloody possible to ever have the good stuff. Shouldn't this wait until after the winter vacations, when all the college kids who make up a large share of Debian developers, have more time to bang on the software?

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Re:No need for alarm...

[Anonymous Coward]

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