At this point the only delay is waiting for the autobuilders, which are overloaded from all the other uploads surrounding the sarge release, to catch up and build the d-i images. In the past 24 hours, we've gotten builds for hppa, ia64, s390, and sparc, plus a manual build for alpha. That leaves arm, m68k (building), mips, mipsel, and powerpc. d-i is far back in the queue for most of these arches[1] and is even slipping further behind on some as more high-urgency package uploads happen. Since it's looking like it could easily take days for some of these buildds to catch up, we may need to do manual builds on some of these architectures. It would be nice if we could get all the builds done before the next dinstall run. If you do a manual build, please take careto make it in an up-to-date and clean sid chroot. Other than that, we seem to be on track for a release. I'm not aware of any showstopper issues, and the current errata list is quite small. Once the initrd builds get in and the CDs are built with them, we will have one final day for last minute testing before the release. The test checklist in installer/doc/checklist is still missing many entries and the more complete it is the better I'd feel about calling this release rc1 instead of beta5. -- see shy jo [1] http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=debian-installer
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