Hi folks, Well, with security support in place for sarge we hoped to be sending this message out a week or so ago, but it took longer than expected to sort out one particularly hairy bug that was known to affect upgrades. Now that it's fixed in testing and we can accept upgrade reports without trying to filter out the noise from that bug, the release team is happy to issue this official call for upgrade testers for sarge. As in releases past, we strongly recommend that you read the release notes before upgrading, and in particular Chapter 4, "Upgrades from previous releases", since some aspects of the recommended upgrade path have changed. The preliminary release notes for sarge can be found at <http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/releasenotes>. Andreas Barth has prepared an upgrade report template to help when reporting problems with your upgrades. If you do run into problems when testing the upgrade path from woody to sarge, please download the template at <http://release.debian.org/upgrade-report.html>, fill it out, and email it to submit@bugs.debian.org. We also welcome reports of successful upgrades, short notes to let us know things are working for you, or tasteful fruit baskets. We mentioned in the freeze announcement[1] that we needed volunteers to help with processing upgrade reports -- taking them apart, identifying the bugs that appear, and assigning them to the packages responsible so that they can get fixed for sarge. Our call for volunteers got us a total of, uh... one person offering to help, so we could probably use more. :) If you are an experienced user who is good at figuring out who to blame when things break, and you have some time you'd be willing to spend helping make sarge the best Debian release ever, please contact debian-release@lists.debian.org. We'll be happy to put you to work. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [vorlon@debian.org] Debian Release Team [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00001.html
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