The following issues are contributing to delaying the rc2 release: - A new netcfg is needed to properly support WEP. It's built on all arches except sparc. - The new netcfg has broken the daily image builds on alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k. To fix just upgrade libiw27 on the build system. This is because of the too-tight versioned dependencies in libiw27. - #279366 is breaking task installs, which makes it hard to test the full system. - A new parted is available fixing MS-DOS idisk label detection when Smart BootManager is installed. It's not yet built on sparc, and will need some testing. - Changes in build/ to support hppa 2.6 kernels need new udebs that are not yet in testing. I don't know if the current udebs are ready yet. These changes also probably need associated debian-cd fixes. There's also a base-installer change needed to install the right kernel. I haven't decided to let this block the release yet, I could upload debian-installer w/o them. Leaning toward giving the hppa people as much time as possible to add 2.6 support though, since they really need it. At least the rate of important new bugs turning up seems to have slowed down a bit. Until the netcfg and a fairly severe languagechooser bug came to light this weekend, I though for several days that I finally had the final initrd builds for rc2. -- see shy jo
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