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

beat to the mark (again)

[global_diffusion]

I was going to make a joke about how my woody was read for release right now, but it looks like 10^4 people already did that.

I must say, I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Imagine running Mozilla 1.0 on Debian 3.0. Ah well, gotta save some things for future generations, right?

(I'm joking of course. These are both fantastic projects. I'm especially psyched to get my hands on Woody as soon as I get my new hard drive...)

Re:Kernel version?

[sydb]

Woody is going to be obsolete the day it is released.

Everything is obsolete the day it is released. You were obsolete the day you were born.

Re:Do the packages being yanked out matter?

[gmhowell]

My guess is that the woody has beeen yanked allready.

I yank woody almost every day. I bet most /. reader's are in the same boat.