Re: [Hampshire] Etch freeze

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Etch freeze

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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 08:07, Peter Salisbury wrote:
>
>
> we just edited the generic freeze file, so that all packages now need
> to be hand-approved in order to go to testing.
>
> Wait, that didn't come out quite right. Let's try again.
>
> Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!!
>


I've been running Etch since it came out, and it's now a pretty nice version,
the last pieces are falling into place and it will be an improvement over
Sarge. At the moment I've been testing doing a Sarge->Etch upgrade using qemu
virtual machines[1], and it seems to work reasonably well.

[1]
http://andreeleidenfrost.blogspot.com/2006/12/upgrade-testing-with-qemu.html

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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