Congrats to the Debian developers

Congrats to Dear Debian Devels and the Community....btw when will this packages freeze ends?ppl like me who are running Debian Sid+experimental are waiting for lotta packages to reach the repositories for eg :linux-2.6.20 kernel etc although svn repo is available.

Quotable note from DD, Neil Williams's blog today.
Yee HAH!

Edit: Just checked the New Packages in Sid, too, Gee Golly! Buckle up!

so to upgrade from old etch to new etch, all we have to do is go through synaptic? or is a dist-upgrade required?

There is no "old etch" and "new etch." There is only "etch" which is no longer testing. It is now stable. If your sources.list says "etch" it is now tracking the Stable repositories. If it says "testing" it is still tracking the Testing (now Lenny) repositories. You should not have to change whatever method of upgrading you have been using.

Etch is still Etch, it just moved from being the Debian testing package to the Debian stable package. You don't need to do any dist-upgrades, although you should probably move from Etch to Lenny if your sources.list has Etch by name, and not testing. Etch will no longer get new packages now that it is stable, just security fixes. I would wait a few days, and then dist-upgrade to Lenny if you have Etch by name. If you have testing in your sources.list, everything will be cool.

[edit]Beat to the punch by several minutes by rickh. Bad to try and netflix/linuxquestions at the same time.[/edit]

Peace,
JimBass

y'all confusing me here, I thought Sid was after Etch, where does/when did Lenny come into the picture?

Sid is never released. It is always Unstable (Some say it is Software In Development, others say the kid in Toy Story who breaks toys).

Lenny is the new Testing, it is currently a copy of Etch but will soon start receiving new packages.

--Ian

All.......righty then!
Etch was a blast, I'll keep it, because I still have 40 or so GB's of free space on my drive, and plan on adding another. Come on down Lenny!

On second thought
See ya on the back stretch Etch, I'd rather be in the "Testing" environment!

Those Sid & Sidux devs are in for some rough times.

Just make sure that if you still need to keep Sarge, change your sources to say "sarge" instead of "stable".

Changing to "old-stable" also works. Also requires less typing!

Peace,
JimBass

For some reasdon it's still a bit tricky to find these from Debians site.. or I missed the link..

Etch .iso downloads.. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/

Seems like only yesterday I was watching Sarge grow into the stable release. Time sure does fly!

*straps on helmet and seat belts and get handy dandy toolbox ready for Sid*

Last time the major switch took place I stayed on Woody for about 3 months, so I feel like a kid again not knowing what to expect with Sid. lol

Woohoo!

I think I'll keep etch for a while yet on the desktop though, as lenny will probably be a little crazy for a while.

And the ole webserver will get a dist-upgrade at last...