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Etch and a half is the nickname for a project to add newer packages (kernel, Xorg drivers and debian-installer) within the stable Debian 'etch' release to increase its usefulness to users with hardware that requires updated drivers.
Mailing List
A mailing list for this project is available on [http://teams.debian.net teams.debian.net]. The name of the list is project-etchnahalf ([http://teams.debian.net/lurker/list/project-etchnahalf.html archive]).
Release Notes are being staged at /ReleaseNotes.
FAQ
- How can a user test Etch And A Half before it's released ?
Simply add the etch-proposed-updates sources after the etch main sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian etch-proposed-updates main (more help on StableProposedUpdates page).
- How can a user propose update to support more Hardware
(not answered).
- When will it be shipped
- The current plan for Atch And A Half is to release as part of a point release (4.0r4).
- What packages would be updated
- linux-2.6.24
- Xorg drivers
- xserver-xorg-video-nv (version 2.0.3, available in proposed-updates)
xserver-xorg-video-intel (version 2.2.1, staged at http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/etchnhalf/)
- debian-installer (based on Lenny one)
- What will not work with this 2.6.24 kernel
- XEN
- vserver
TODO
* [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=project-etchnahalf@teams.debian.net;which=tag&data=needed&archive=no Bugs] that need to be resolved * Add b43-fwcutter, bnx2-fwcutter
Kickoff Meeting 2007.10.31 @ 18:00 GMT in #debian-release
Minutes and log
[http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debian-release.20071031_1800.html minutes]
[http://meetbot.debian.net/meetbot/debian-release.log.20071031_1800.html full IRC Log]
Agenda
- Is it still a good idea?
- Kernel
- Are there any issues with using 2.6.23?
- Must the Etch And A Half kernel have a superset of the 2.6.18 features? (e.g., xen, linux-modules-*, kernel-patches, etc)
- Do we need to comply with etch or post-etch blob-stripping rules?
- What differences should the Etch And A Half kernel have vs. the packages targeted for sid (e.g., ATA config)
- Update kernel patches and modules?
- Newer kernel headers use linux-libc-dev: do we need that too?
- Will newer kernel headers cause other packages that build against them to FTBFS?
- Are there other packages that need to be upgraded at the same time? for instance sysvinit to solve #426224
- 2.6.18 with more backports (e1000, forcedeth, ...)?
- xen update to 3.1?
- X
- What X driver updates?
- d-i
- What d-i changes are necessary? What d-i branch?
- GNOME
- KDE
- Attempt to derive a list of milestones/dependencies
- Future discussion
- teams.debian.net list?
- future meetings
- keywords: EtchAndAHalf ; Etch-And-A-Half; Etch-N-Half ; Etchnhalf ; Etchnahalf