[7001] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Maverick support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Oct 12 00:43:05 2010
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:42:56 -0400
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, debathena@mit.edu
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To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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> I sent mail Sunday night
See also "holiday weekend" (yes, I realize this means different things for students vs not-students), but ok.
> , and there was only one code change (pam-config) that needed to be pushed, and my thinking is that it's a new release so we're not risking destabilization of anything.
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> More importantly, Debathena will get uninstalled by people who run the release upgrader unless the Maverick packages are in production and the upgrader can upgrade Debathena at the same time (because of various version dependencies on Lucid packages, probably libraries etc.), so I'm leaning towards earlier rather than later.
Point. This is a bigger problem (and is partially #365), and I've filed #731 to document this.
>>> enable maverick support in the installer shell script, and send mail to this effect to debathena-announce and release-announce, assuming I receive no reports of issues between now and when I wake up. Liz, Ben, and I have all installed Debathena on Maverick and things seem fine.)
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>> 3 data points really doesn't feel like a good enough test of a brand new distro to me. I haven't even tested it yet. Also, which metapackages did you install? Did testing consist merely of installation, or anything else?
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> Up to workstation; tried logging in and poking around a bit and making sure obvious stuff like AFS/zephyr/alpine/moira works. thirdparty and cluster definitely don't work and I don't intend to support those except possibly by coincidence when we work on the Natty cluster release.
OK, good.
-Jon
