Debian Woody Nearing Release

willybur submits word of this Debian Planet story on the upcoming release of its next stable version. The article says: "According to Anthony Towns (our beloved Release Manager), woody is nearing release. All but three RC base bugs are fixed now, and the bugsquashing party is working through the RC bugs in standard. It's not all good news though. The bad news is that this means we're probably releasing soon, and that of the hundreds of less important packages with RC bugs (eg, bugzilla, craft, crossfire-{client,server}, epic4, fvwm95, gmc, gnome-admin, intuitively, kdepim, moon-lander, tkdesk, wine, and xosview) will be getting randomly ripped out of testing ... Check the stuff that's important to you and get it fixed before it's too late." Says willybur: "See the announcement on debian-devel-announce."

Comments

Kernel version?

[frozenwoody]

All I can say is this: I *seriously* hope we're using at least the 2.0 kernel.

Re:Fighting the /. effect. Do not mod up.

[Daniel]

Thanks for your insightful [0] comments on our release process. Could you give me a URL for the webpage of your Linux distribution? Given your cutting insight into the issues of building one, I assume you have one with some useful features we could learn from. I also presume it's quite stable, secure, and up-to-date, and already runs on a half dozen hardware architectures and at least two kernels.

Thanks,
Daniel

[0] or is that inciteful?