Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

[Pino Toscano]

Alle venerdì 10 maggio 2013, Svante Signell ha scritto:
> Very good :) small comments below.
> 
> On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 21:30 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> > Em 10-05-2013 19:37, Samuel Thibault escreveu:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > I have added a draft of article on the wiki, see
> > > 
> > > http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/contributing/web_pages/news/
> > > hurd_2013/
> > > 
> > > Please patch, discuss, amend, etc.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Slight changed:
> > 
> > 
> > Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released!
> > 
> > It is with huge pleasure that the Hurd project announces the
> > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. This is a snapshot of Debian sid
> 
> and testing

hurd-i386 doesn't have testing, so the release is a snapshot of 
sid/unstable *only*.

> > at the time of
> > the Debian Wheezy release (May 2013), so it is mostly based on
> > Wheezy.

While at the time of the Wheezy release testing and unstable were 
certainly closer than any other time in development, sid at the time of 
snapshot had various library and apps upgrades (for example, R at 
version 2.15 in Wheezy while it was already at 3.0 in sid). Thus, it 
would be more correct to say it is based on Sid.

> > It is not an official Debian release, but it is an
> > official Debian GNU/Hurd port release.
> > 
> > 
> > The installation ISO images can be downloaded from Debian Ports
> > with the usual 3 Debian flavors: NETINST, CD, or DVD. Beside a
> > friendly installer a pre-installed disk image is also available to
> > make trying Debian GNU/Hurd even easier.
> > 
> > Debian GNU/Hurd it's currently available for the i386 architecture
> > with more than 10.000 software packages available (~80% of the
> > Debian archive).

~78%

> > Please make sure to read the configuration information, the FAQ, and
> > the translator primer for a start.

- "configuration information" should point to [1]
- also append "to the documentation" (pointing at [2])
- "FAQ" should point to [3]

[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
[2] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc
[3] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.html

> Additionally a lot of patches are pending (due to the long freeze
> period) see e.g.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=hurd;users=debian-h
> urd@lists.debian.org so the percentage could be much higher.

"a lot of patches" is surely not true (and we had the a similar amount 
also in non-freeze period), and a number of those won't give actually 
much.

With the above changes and Michael Banck's note that it is a "Debian 
GNU/Hurd port release", it'd be good IMHO.

-- 
Pino Toscano

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