By Phil Manchester 10th October 2008 18:17 GMT
Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian - codename Lenny - could be delayed until June 2009. Based on the number of outstanding release-critical bugs and the time it has taken to fix them on previous releases, Debian developer Bastian Venthur estimated it will take a further eight or nine months to bring Lenny up to release quality.
Originally scheduled for release in September, McIntyre said last month that he expected to release Lenny by the end of October and quashed speculation about further delays this week.
"Bastian's being a little bit pessimistic based on the data he's looking at, but as far as I know, he hasn't spoken to any of the release team. As far as Lenny goes, we're 'almost' there," he told The Register.
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Using Debian 'Lenny' for a matter of months I can attest that has been completely stable even if the Debian folks don't think it's ready.
Debian testing is already the basis of many distros (including Ubuntu) and Sidux incorporates Debian unstable.
Very encouraging!