Today's CD build and the d-i images build of the 28th are the test candidate images. This silly name means that it's the candidate to be the release candidate if it tests out ok. So please test it everywhere. I think it's as good or better as any of the past betas on i386, with no known errata, but then we always seem to find bugs at the last minute, and this time may be no different. Most of the other arches should also be ok; but sparc64 has broken module loading (as it did in beta4), and alpha is not built yet. This build was planned to be ready on the 27th, but various issues delayed it until now. Since we no longer have a chance to release it before DebConf ends, let's wait a week to see if it's really release-worthy. Of course any installation reports for the test candidate are good to have, but we also have a checklist of different installation methods to try. This is a pass/fail kind of thing, to see whether installation works in each different way. The file is installer/doc/checklist in the tree and can be edited as different things are tried. We will decide after the week of testing whether the bugs we've found are bad enough to delay the release, or minor enough to be ignored for the release. To help track these, tag the bugs with the d-i tag, and include "[rc1]" in the subject. (Manty and James, please arrange for the above-mentioned images to be kept, and accessible under the name "tc1" with symlinks or whatever.) -- see shy jo
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