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Debian Woody Nearing Release

Posted by timothy on from the long-time-comin' dept.

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."

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  1. Speed of releases by XBL · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is a valid question: Why does it take so long for new Debian releases to come out? Even OpenBSD seems to have more releases with security audits, new features, etc.

    What makes it even worse is the fact that by the time releases come out, many of the software packages are out of date. Sure, they are almost guaranteed to work, but is it really that big of an issue? I have no problems with rolling my own if a package does not work.

    Another thing I do not like about Debian is the installer. Dammit, if the packages are so good, then it should be even easier to create a good installer without many bugs, etc. For Linux itself, there are other installers that can take care of a lot of those development issues.

    To personify Debian, I would describe the person as autistic with a generally obsessive mind on minute details, and slow learning capabilities.

  2. What? No whining bitches? by Talez · · Score: 0, Troll

    And I was so looking forward to laughing at the "Why the hell was this posted? I dont want to know about stuff that will be released soon, I want to know when the stuff is released! Why the hell is this news for nerds? Why dont we just post when redhat makes another beta? Or when Linus builds another pre version of a kernel! Yeah that'd make a really interesting news site! Screw you slashdot!" posts...