[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 08:42, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> On 10/01/2009 06:13 AM, Kevin Cole wrote:
>> First: congrats to all.
>>
>> Second: User-friendliness bug:
>>
>> The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora,
>> Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release."
>> No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki version.
>> Searching the wiki turned up "Supported Systems" which merely states
>> that to upgrade "sudo olpc-update 767" with the appropriate build
>> number.  Build number not provided in the release notes.
>>
>> So a build number and/or a link to the best set of instructions would
>> be most welcome.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> This is the announcement of the source tarballs of the Sucrose 0.86
> release. Now it needs to be packaged for the distributions. Each
> distribution will have another way of packaging (deb, rpm...) and will
> have different ways of updating (yum, aptitude, olpc-update...).
>
> Sugar is the upstream project, that is why I do not add downstream
> distribution notes in the announcements. What would be nice is that
> packagers of each distribution update the wiki instructions for their
> distribution accordingly and send a note to the mailing list to
> encourage testers.
>
> I hope that we will have a new soas snapshot containing the 0.86 for
> testing soon as well.

Sugar has been mentioned in the release notes of Fedora and Mandriva
releases, which contain links to installation instructions for each of
them.

Would be great if other distros also did the same.

Regards,

Tomeu

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