1.9rc1 countdown

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Tim Michelsen
<timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure precisely what message you're referring to here.  If it's
that the update manager wants to reload the package availability
information, or that it wants to update you to a new version of
Bazaar, that's normal and expected.

Thanks for testing it, btw.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>