HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

[The Anarcat]

On the tune of some cute Ramones song...

"Beat on the Troll
Beat on the Troll
Beat on the Troll
With a baseball bat
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!"

A.

On Thu May 29, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Thorsten Futrega wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
> The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to
> allow for some final pending work to be committed and 
> prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will
> 
> likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30.
> 
> We ask that large scale changes still be deferred 
> until after 5.1 is actually released so that any
>  problems can be dealt with.  The release
> engineering team will send out emails explicitely
> stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes
> like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go 
> it.
> 
> The most important changes I'm going to commit today:
> 
> - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA
> snapshot.
> - Remove GNU tar.
> - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD
> processors.
> - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus.
> - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered).
> - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base.
> - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix.
> 
> If anyone has any reason why these should not be 
> committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send
> replies
> to the list.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>  Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team.
> 
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