.
The test period will show which of the bugs are truly critical.
Richard Braakman
[debian-devel-announce is an announcements list. Please direct discussion
about this announcement to debian-devel instead.]
for them. Otherwise, we'll
have to have another test cycle that we know won't become a release -- oh well.
(The ones I'm thinking of are emacs20, gdb, gpm, glibc, pdl, ssh, sysvinit,
and util-linux -- I hope the list can be shortened because not all of those
look release-critical.)
Richard
sometimes see discussion on debian-devel about
whether a bug really is release-critical. Such discussion is good
and useful for gathering consensus. But discussing, agreeing, and
then doing nothing will do nothing. Please follow up on such decisions.
Richard Braakman
[Please send discussion
I have removed these packages from the frozen distribution today. They
are still available in unstable (except for xemacs20).
Richard Braakman
Package: dconfig (debian/main).
Maintainer: Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
62578 dconfig: /etc/menu-methods/dconfig has wrong permissions
Package
a different problem). Removal of a package is final.
Richard Braakman
---
Total number of bugs listed: 34
Explanation for tags:
* [FIX]: describes
for the bootfloppies),
and perl-5.005.
tkstep8.0 was also on the too important list last time, but I think
it can be removed after all, because all packages depending on it are
happy with tk8.0 instead.
Richard Braakman
Hmpf, I sent the previous announcement before it was quite finished.
Here is the list of bugs I meant to append.
This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon.
I generated it from the bugscan report of Mar 12 15:08, and subtracted
the bugs that were fixed by uploads I installed
I removed these packages from frozen today.
package: communicator-dmotif-408 (debian/non-free).
Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Took out netscape4.08 packages]
48163 Cannot coexist with current LessTif package.
Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free).
Maintainer: Adam
This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon.
I generated it from the bugscan report of Feb 27 03:04.
I'll make the final list on the morning of the 29th (GMT).
If a package you like is on this list, now is the time to save it.
Richard Braakman
(Please remember that debian
This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon.
I generated it from the bugscan report of Feb 23 15:10.
Richard Braakman
(Please remember that debian-devel-announce is an announcements list.
Discussions about announcements should be held on the appropriate list,
usually
This is the current list of bugs that are headed for the horizon.
I generated it from the bugscan report of Feb 17 15:09.
Richard Braakman
(Please remember that debian-devel-announce is an announcements list.
Discussions about announcements should be held on the appropriate list,
usually
). If you want to help, there are lots of other
ways, now that reminder mails are being taken care of. Look at
the [HELP] tags in the bugscan report for example.
Richard Braakman
(Please remember that debian-devel-announce is an announcements list.
Discussions about announcements should be held
to be a Debian developer, since the task involves access
to the bugscan comments file, which resides on master.
Richard Braakman
(Please remember that debian-devel-announce is an announcements list.
Discussions about announcements should be held on the appropriate list,
usually debian-devel.)
I vote these most likely to delay the release. They are difficult
packages that we can't really do without, and seem to have been
abandoned by their maintainers. Please help.
Richard Braakman
Package: altgcc (debian/main).
Maintainer: Galen Hazelwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
53401 altgcc does
distributions start out with the same set
of packages, but unstable will be updated rapidly, while frozen
will have only bugfixes applied in preparation for its release.
We expect the freeze process to take about two months.
Richard Braakman
Debian Release Manager
[1] Debian releases are code
that there are a number of packages in Incoming that should
still go into potato. I will process them this weekend.
Richard Braakman
.)
Remember that I will be _very_ busy during this time. I try to
reply to all my mail, but I may be swamped in the near future.
Richard Braakman
party,
but it will last longer and have a cooler name :-)
(I note that bug, bash, and festival are all Debian packages... so
someone needs to package grand).
Richard Braakman
the remaining bugs, if necessary.
Then a new Test Cycle starts.
I hope that two Test Cycles will be enough; that will put the release near
the end of February.
Thanks,
Richard Braakman
), the release-critical bug pages
(http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs), and email.
If there's enough interest, we will continue on Sunday.
Wear your big stompin' boots, and prepare to splatter bug juice
all over the dist!
--
Richard Braakman
(60 days till freeze)
is set to ssh.
The mailing list for coordination is debian-boot; CVS update messages
are also sent there. The bug reports are collected under the
package name boot-floppies.
Richard Braakman
boot disks and CD images are created, and the cycle begins again.
Richard Braakman
. Right now it looks like potato will be
completely incompatible with slink for C++ programs. We can no longer
build the slink compatibility libraries on potato systems.
In addition, there must be working powerpc bootdisks if we're going to
release powerpc.
Richard Braakman
sponsored full pamification as a release goal. The main
packages that need work are the shadow suite, and xdm.
Perl 5.005:
Two people volunteered as coordinator for this, and promptly got
into an argument :-) I'll pick wait and see on this one.
Richard Braakman
left after
six years, when I was lured away by the Debian Project.
CONCLUSION
Overall, I expect I will be a project leader who listens a lot and
says little. I hope to speak up at just the right times.
Richard Braakman
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