"You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" As of last night, thanks to Daniel Silverstone, no more base (as installed by debootstrap) or standard (by priority) packages will be accepted into testing from unstable. Fixes for RC and important bugs, as well as updated package translations, are still allowed through uploads to testing-proposed-updates. These uploads will be manually reviewed and approved by the release team; we would appreciate, even more than usual, that diffs be kept to an absolute minimum so that our job is easier. Please review your changes with 'debdiff' or similar before uploading. If in doubt, get in touch with debian-release@lists.debian.org first. Uploads of gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 are currently waiting in testing-proposed-updates/incoming for builds to complete. These will allow us to make packages built against unstable that depend on libgcc1 valid candidates for testing. As for the other major library transition that's happening, namely libtiff4, it seems to be well in hand thanks to some sterling efforts. The last few updates to unstable should happen over the next couple of days. Now, we have slipped a little bit, partly because of toolchain problems and partly because debian-installer needed a few extra days anyway, so here's an updated timeline: 7 August 2004 215 RC bugs Hard freeze of base+standard Here we are. We need to be fixing RC bugs as quickly as possible from now on, and RC bugs should not be staying open for longer than a week. If you're having trouble, contact debian-release or ask for help in #debian-bugs on irc.freenode.net. If any of the buildds are still having problems with testing-proposed-updates or testing-security uploads, we're going to need those to be fixed soon. Base and standard libraries in unstable may not make changes that require increased shared library dependencies. This is in order that lower-priority packages built against them can still propagate to testing. 7 August 2004 215 RC bugs Debian-installer RC1 released Also today, businesscard and netinst CD images of d-i RC1 have been built, and full CD sets are building. These should be available by dinstall time on 7 August. We now need developers and interested users to begin testing these images for release-worthiness, and reporting both successes and failures as bugs against the installation-reports package in the usual way. The release schedule allows time for another d-i release in late August to fix any release-critical problems found. The full CD sets (as opposed to businesscard and netinst images) may still need a lot of work. Based on feedback from d-i testing, the installation manual is refined and prepared for release. 12 August 2004 ~180 RC bugs testing-proposed-updates, testing-security working for all architectures Official security support for sarge begins Assuming the toolchain is in order, we can hope to have autobuilders for testing-proposed-updates and testing-security in working order for all architectures by this point. The testing-proposed-updates queue will already be in use for uploads of RC bugfixes, but up to now testing-security is not in use. Now that it's ready, the security team can begin providing security support for sarge. The sooner this can actually happen, the better. The biggest chunk of the security team's load is going to be in searching for regressions from woody, which is something that can easily be distributed over developers and users. Volunteers to help with this would be greatly appreciated. With security support in place, adventurous users can begin testing the upgrade path from woody to sarge. Their feedback will be used for further bugfixing of packages, and to start preparing release notes. Please report any problems as bugs against the upgrade-reports package. 17 August 2004 ~165 RC bugs Last call for low-urgency uploads 28 August 2004 100 RC bugs d-i RC2 if needed Freeze time! 16 September 2004 0 RC bugs Evaluate status and pick date for release 19 September 2004 Release target You know the rest. Over the next two or three weeks, we need to concentrate hard on stabilizing the system and fixing the 200-odd release-critical bugs that remain, either by making minimal changes to packages or by removing them. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org] Debian Release Team
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