latest 2.6.25 stable release is in testing, we expect to keep it as backup
plan for lenny. release team wishes to have unstable coverage of 2.6.26
before final ack on that release.

the current release blocker is the linux-libc-dev patch by
waldi that is reviewed by vorlon to keep the lenny build chain stable.

shortlist of 2.6.26 features:
* ro bind mounts, udf 2.50
* kgdb, kvm archs, better wireless drivers, uvcvideo
* olpc, ps3 support
* upstream coordination with xen and opevnz
* lots of fixed 2.6.25 x86 regressions
* request_firmware() work reenabling ip3, acenic and keyspan
* arm, mips fixes
* closing bunch of x86 regressions

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maximilian attems a écrit :
> latest 2.6.25 stable release is in testing, we expect to keep it as backup
> plan for lenny. release team wishes to have unstable coverage of 2.6.26
> before final ack on that release.
>
> the current release blocker is the linux-libc-dev patch by
> waldi that is reviewed by vorlon to keep the lenny build chain stable.
>
> shortlist of 2.6.26 features:
> * ro bind mounts, udf 2.50
> * kgdb, kvm archs, better wireless drivers, uvcvideo
> * olpc, ps3 support
> * upstream coordination with xen and opevnz
> * lots of fixed 2.6.25 x86 regressions
> * request_firmware() work reenabling ip3, acenic and keyspan
> * arm, mips fixes
> * closing bunch of x86 regressions

That's nice to mention the fixed regressions (actually twice), but
that's not fair to not mention the new (unknown yet) regressions...

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maximilian attems <max@stro.at> writes:

> latest 2.6.25 stable release is in testing, we expect to keep it as backup
> plan for lenny. release team wishes to have unstable coverage of 2.6.26
> before final ack on that release.

If this is the desire of Release Team, I have no problem on that.

I'd prefer to have it on experimental before upload it to unstable so
first and more urgent issues wouldn't bother us and users however this
is more up to you and RM team then me. My preference would be:

- upload to experimental
- wait for at least 5 days without issues
- check for any possible building issues with new libc headers
- upload to sid (since it has been proven more or less stable)

When uploading to sid, I believe that meta packages should go together
so we do get a nice coverage on that.

After sometime on sid, I believe we ought to move d-i for it if it
looks to be a real option for lenny and try to release a first RC of
installer as soon as possible after that.

Thank you by coordinating it with us.

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:02:26 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> I'd prefer to have it on experimental before upload it to unstable so
> first and more urgent issues wouldn't bother us and users however this
> is more up to you and RM team then me. My preference would be:
>
> - upload to experimental
> - wait for at least 5 days without issues

That's just adding an arbitrary 5 days delay. Uploading to experimental
won't uncover new issues, because nobody uses packages in experimental.

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Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:02:26 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>
>> I'd prefer to have it on experimental before upload it to unstable so
>> first and more urgent issues wouldn't bother us and users however this
>> is more up to you and RM team then me. My preference would be:
>>
>> - upload to experimental
>> - wait for at least 5 days without issues
>
> That's just adding an arbitrary 5 days delay. Uploading to experimental
> won't uncover new issues, because nobody uses packages in experimental.

Uploading it to sid, will make a revertion to .25 much harder if
needed. Besides that, we'd need to know if it _at least_ builds on all
architectures and then be ready to upload meta packages...

As I said, this is more up to kernel team and release management team
then me but it is the safest option IMO.

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:07:25PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> > That's just adding an arbitrary 5 days delay. Uploading to experimental
> > won't uncover new issues, because nobody uses packages in experimental.

> Uploading it to sid, will make a revertion to .25 much harder if
> needed. Besides that, we'd need to know if it _at least_ builds on all
> architectures and then be ready to upload meta packages...

No, it really would be a waste of time. 2.6.25 is already in testing, so
t-p-u is still there as an update path; but no one on the kernel side is
really considering 2.6.25 to be an option for lenny, and the sooner we get
2.6.26 into unstable the sooner we can get everything smoothed out for
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, maximilian attems wrote:

> the current release blocker is the linux-libc-dev patch by
> waldi that is reviewed by vorlon to keep the lenny build chain stable.

patch incorporating review got in.
thanks waldi and vorlon!

i'll announce upload of 2.6.26-1 for tomorrow, will hit NEW.

currently open, but not blockers (they can be added on the way):
- vserver for 2.6.26
- openvz on ia64 arch

shall we give a README.Debian note on the vserser-xen flavour dropping?

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maximilian attems <max@stro.at> writes:

> shall we give a README.Debian note on the vserser-xen flavour dropping?

I'd say a NEWS entry.

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:12:32 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:

> maximilian attems <max@stro.at> writes:
>
> > shall we give a README.Debian note on the vserser-xen flavour dropping?
>
> I'd say a NEWS entry.
>
If the package doesn't exist anymore, it can't have a NEWS file. And
spamming the users of every other image with a note that some flavour
they don't use got dropped doesn't sound optimal.

Cheers,
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:53:22PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> i'll announce upload of 2.6.26-1 for tomorrow, will hit NEW.

Nack.

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