Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

From: Bosko Milekic (bmilekic_at_unixdaemons.com)
Date: 05/29/03

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    Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:56:14 -0400
To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org>

    For the benefit of the majority: This post was FAKE.

    Now please return to your regularly scheduled discussion and kindly
    ignore all future posts to this thread.

    -Bosko

    On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:50:33PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote:
    > > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to
    > > allow for some final pending work to be committed and
    > > prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will
    > >
    > > likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30.
    > >
    > > We ask that large scale changes still be deferred
    > > until after 5.1 is actually released so that any
    > > problems can be dealt with. The release
    > > engineering team will send out emails explicitely
    > > stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes
    > > like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go
    > > it.
    > >
    > > The most important changes I'm going to commit today:
    > >
    > > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA
    > > snapshot.
    >
    > I'm just wondering... but is there a reason why gcc is being replaced? Is
    > there a page or a previous list mail that explains the reasons? URL?
    > Thanks.
    >
    > > - Remove GNU tar.
    > > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD
    > > processors.
    > > - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus.
    > > - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered).
    > > - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.
    > > - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix.
    > >
    > > If anyone has any reason why these should not be
    > > committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send
    > > replies
    > > to the list.
    > >
    > > Thank you.
    > >
    > > Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team.
    > >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Ken
    >
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