Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny

A. B. VerHausen writes to tell us that over 200 release-critical bugs continue to push back Debian Lenny's release date. Originally slated for a September release, there is still a long road to be traveled before Lenny sees the light of day. Project leader Steve McIntyre says they may consider dropping some packages for the release if they continue to cause problems, and while an end of October release is the goal, only time will tell.

Comments

Re:What else is new?

[GigaplexNZ]

Just wait till Debian names the next release after Wheezy, the asthmatic penguin.

They have already used the W letter for naming Warty Warthog. If you are referring to using X, try Xanthic Xerus (a yellowish African ground squirrel).

Re:What else is new?

[darkpixel2k]

Oh yeah? Well then why don't these people solve their own damn problem. Take the Ubuntu releases and repackage them under another distro name! Name it Ultra Serious Linux (USL). Start with USL 9000, and go up in number from there.

Nothing stoping you. Infact, even charge for it, because everyone knows good software is not available for free. Use the same Ubuntu repos if you'd like.

Yeah, that's a logical, rational response.

That's like saying "You don't like notepad? Well just fork Windows."

Other than the /etc/lsb-release file, I never see the retarded animal name. It's just the forum, launchpad, etc...

But I'll keep your suggestion in mind. The next time I don't like the name, I'll just rsync all the ubuntu sites, scrape the wiki, and change every single reference from 'flaccid falcon' to '9.06' because it's such a good use of one person's time.

On the other hand, if they just did a quick poll, they could stop making up dumb codenames and just call the development versions 8.10-pre.

Nothing says "we're trying to attract business users" than codenaming your distro "hardy".

As much as I despise Microsoft, names like 'XP, Vista, Longhorn, ME', etc... are much better than 'hardy, warthog, heron, gutsy', etc...