preparing an IcedTea6-1.8 release

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 9 March 2010 17:39, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to prepare an IcedTea6-1.8 release, which I would like to
> include into the coming Debian and Ubuntu releases. The build failures
> introduced with the 6b18 import are now fixed, not seeing any more build
> failures. Would be reasonable to do this before switching to 6b19, and
> preparing a prerelease for mid/end of next week, and the final release for
> the end of March?
>
>  Matthias
>
>

We definitely need a release prior to importing b19, but that's not
imminent just yet (Zero needs upstreaming for one thing).  It would
also be good to get Nimbus out in a release, so the plan sounds good
to me.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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