New release ?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 17 August 2008 at 00:18, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| >>>>>     on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:27:47 -0500 writes:
| 
|     DE> Now back from UseR where I promptly forgot to ask
|     DE> Marting about this, I did an innocent 'svn up' and
|     DE> noticed the flood of changes. Cool!  So shall we make a
|     DE> new Debian release as a 5.3.9~3939 ? Or wait for 5.3.9 ?
| 
|     DE> Also, I guess I am missing when releases are made as I
|     DE> didn't move from 5.3.8~3917 to a proper 5.3.8. Is there
|     DE> an ess-announce list ?
| 
| There's only one public ESS - list and that's where the
| announcement went --- on July 28 .
| { I had 'BCC:'ed it to ESS-debian,
|   but my mailing list filters don't accept postings via BCC. }
| 
| Here's the svn log :
| 
| ----
| r3929 | maechler | 2008-07-28 08:32:28 +0200 (Mon, 28 Jul 2008) | 1 line
| Changed paths:
|    M ChangeLog
| 
| Version 5.3.8
| ----
| 
| The changes since then are too little for a new release (5.3.9).
| But I think debian should release 5.3.8 proper (i.e. up to rev 3929).

It is too late anyway for the freeze.  And if we make a new release, why not
use what is current in svn?

Also, I forgot to ask earlier:  did anything happen with respect to our open
Debian bug report:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=371058

Dirk

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