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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Jan 26, Juuso Alasuutari [iuso AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 06:16, Andrew Stitt wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:58:54PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > > On Jan 25, Jaka Kranjc [lynx AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 25 January 2007 17:05, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > >
> > > The depends appears to have worked.
> > >
> > > I don't see anything else preventing us releasing any time now.
> >
> > Everything on the wiki is signed off except for smgl-fhs (sandalle),
> > shadow (sandalle), and udev (iuso). I dont think there are any gating
> > issues left unresolved with those spells. So I think we're ready to
> > release.
> >
> > I propose formally releasing it tomorrow (January 26th) around noon PST.
> > Thats 16 hours from now. Now is the time to bring up any last minute
> > issues. Otherwise they will be delayed until the next release.
> >
> > Great job everyone. Time to start brainstorming ideas to streamline
> > things for the next cycle. Would anyone like to take the wheel and drive
> > the next one? I think multiple leads should have practice doing it.
> 
> There's one thing about udev still. The version in stable-rc is 103, which 
> deprecates hotplug, but it's still missing the necessary edits I've been 
> working on (while also busy with work :/). If we choose to postpone the 
> hotplug->udev transition for this release, we should downgrade stable-rc's 
> udev to the one in the present stable to be sure.
> 
> Another option would be to integrate the edits I've made in test (udev 104, 
> hotplug, linux), they work well for me. But we'd still need to try them out 
> on other boxes than only mine.
> 
> I think postponing the transition (using the udev from current stable) 
> would 
> be nice because then more users would have a recent enough kernel when the 
> new udev is finally integrated.

Yes, this needs more testing before it goes forward.  Which commit ids need
reverting?

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