1.9rc1 countdown

[Tim Michelsen]

Hello,

> The plan is then to do 1.9final on Friday the 7th, with just fixes for
> any regressions or serious bugs that may come up during testing of
> 1.9.  To enable this we should try to get 1.9 into the PPA and Windows
> and Mac installers as soon as we can - I'll do the PPA, but would
> appreciated help with the others.
I just want to drop a note that adding the PPA to a Ubuntu 8.04 machine 
tells me to perform a system upgrade.
Strange.

Kind regards,
Timmie