The Debian projects maintainer Luk Claes said July 21 he will freeze testing the Lenny tree next week as he prepares for the stable release of Debian Linux in September.Open-source software developers have only a few more days to package any
applications that they want to be included in the next release of Debian and
Ubuntu.
The Debian projects maintainer, Luk Claes, said July 21 that he will freeze
testing the Lenny tree next week as he prepares for the stable release of
Debian Linux in September.
When the freeze begins next week, the 2,000-plus Debian maintainers will no
longer accept new packages; they will instead turn their attention to about 360
release-critical bugs.
Like all Debian releases, Lenny is named for a character in Pixar
Animation's seminal movie "Toy Story." You may recall Lenny as a pair
of wind-up binoculars that are usually among the last toys to scuttle safely
back to their "right place" prior to Andy's arrival.
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