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Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
- From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: bcollins at debian dot org, debian-gcc at lists dot debian dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 23:30:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria
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[sorry for the late reply, this mail went into some obscure folder]
Kaveh R. Ghazi writes:
> > From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
> >
> > Kaveh R. Ghazi writes:
> > > Thanks Matthias, but seeing your patch two things occur to me:
> > >
> > > One is we don't have a "tester" for x86 Debian (of any version), would
> > > you like to volunteer to be it?
> >
> > yes, then I will "test" it on Debian unstable as well.
>
> Great, thanks. Though be aware that being the "tester" will mean
> Debian specific bugs will be pointed your way, and the responsibility
> to fix them prior to the release being made is yours not that of the
> Release Manager.
Well, then please leave this field blank. I cannot commit on this.
> > We apply some patches to the packages, for which descriptions are
> > included into the test reports. These patches include
>
> For the purposes of evaluating release criteria, it's important to
> test and post results for a "clean" source tree. It does no good to
> say GCC 3.3 works with N extra patches when deciding whether 3.3 alone
> is releasable with regards to Debian. Don't you agree?
I agree. I'll check it independantly of the Debian builds. The Debian
builds are already marked with "(Debian prerelease)" instead of
"(prerelease)" in the version string.
Matthias