Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:30:34 +0200
From: Martin Schulze joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE
To: Debian Announcements
Subject: Second official Test Cycle for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
scheduled
The Debian Project press@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/ Martin Schulze
May 23, 2000
The next step to release `potato’ alias Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
will be taken soon. On Wednesday, May 24th, the first official Test
Cycle[1] ends. During the next days after the end packages
scheduled for installation will be installed and packages with
release critical bugs will be purged.
Special attention has to be taken for packages whose bugs don’t
appear in `potato’ but only in `woody’. This is also a request for
developers to review the list of release critical bugs[2] and mark
them properly. The `woody’ distribution is the successor of
`potato’ and currently tagged `unstable’. It is already being
actively developed.
“The first test cycle flushed out some coordination problems”,
says Richard Braakman, current Release-Manager for the Debian
Project. “We hope that the next cycle will be a more thorough test
of the distribution itself.”
On Monday, May 29th, the next test cycle will start. During the
next days after Monday boot-floppies and cd images will stabilize
and demonstrate the high quality of the distribution.
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volunteer their time and effort. Its tasks include maintaining and
updating Debian GNU/Linux which is a free distribution of the
GNU/Linux operating system, and the development of the Debian
GNU/Hurd operating system.
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[1]
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-announce-00/msg00005.html
[2] List of release critical bugs http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/