Hello world. The following will also be sent to the maintainers of the affected packages, but as this involves a substantial percentage of the archive, I felt it was worth sending to d-d-a first. Now that the gcc blockage has been addressed, it's possible to get a clearer look at what's needed to complete the libtiff transition for sarge. The answer is: quite a lot, really. What follows is a summary of the packages we know to be involved in this transition. [Apologies for the lack of alphabetization here] The following frozen packages need to have updated versions available in testing: slang gnutls11 libgpg-error The release team is working on addressing these quickly. These packages are currently ready to go -- so it's important that they *not* be reuploaded to the archive right now, lest they reset the countdown (or get removed from sarge, depending on the importance of the package): tiff gnustep-base pantomime gtk+2.0 libexif libforms1 affiche ale bfm charmap deskmenu devil distcc djvulibre eog exif fnlib fontforge fox gem gnustep-back gnustep-gui gomoku gphoto2 gq gtodo hevea hp2xx imagemagick imlib imlib+png2 kdc2tiff lcms libdisplaymigration libexif-gtk libexif-ruby libgdiplus libgnome2-wnck-perl libgnomeuimm2.0 libgphoto2 libimage-exif-perl libpanelappletmm2.6 libtk-img libtododb mathbox-panel-manager mdbtools mgp mlglade motioneye netpbm-free ocamlsdl paintlib paul pixelize povray-3.5 pstoedit python-gtk2 scribus sdl-image1.2 survex synce-multisync-plugin waili wallp wxwindows2.4 xfcalendar xfce4-mixer xfce4-systray xfce4-toys xfce4-trigger-launcher xfdesktop4 xfprint4 xfwm4 xmorph xnc xpaint camera librsvg2 exult gimp-dimage-color idesk mlglade ocamlsdl xplanet asc xsane If you find new RC bugs in any of the above packages, please notify debian-release@lists.debian.org. The following packages will most likely need to be removed from testing temporarily to accomodate the tiff transition in a timely manner: advi - RC bug 265212 -- but possibly downgradable endeavour - RC bug 264236 (doesn't build w/ dash) fbi - depends on curl, which isn't ready... and may not be distributable anyway, GPL+OpenSSL gnobog - needs 4 more days, and depends on jadetex getting fixed gthumb - just uploaded, needs 5 days, depends on libgnome being ready pinball - out of date, depends on jadetex getting fixed And the rest of these packages are also included in the transition, but aren't ready to go into testing yet, for the various reasons listed. They also need to be left alone, so that new uploads don't reset the counter: animal - out of date on arm aqsis - needs one more day autotrace - out of date on s390 cameleon - needs two days, out of date on arm, ia64, mips, s390, sparc camlimages - out of date on arm, ia64, mips, s390, sparc capi4hylafax - needs one more day, out of date on arm caudium - out of date on arm, mips, mipsel chameleon - needs one more day, will go in on its own cinepaint - needs one more day cupsys - out of date on m68k (a4000t building) digikam - out of date on mips, mipsel dx - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc emacs21 - out of date on m68k (kullervo building) enlightenment - out of date on arm epplets - needs one more day gandalf - needs two days gdk-pixbuf - needs 10 days, many builds (just uploaded 12Aug) ghfaxviewer - NMU fix for RC bug uploaded today, needs 2 days & builds gimp-print - out of date on arm gmoo - needs 9 days, out of date on arm, mipsel, s390, sparc grass - needs 4 days gs-esp - out of date on arm, mips, mipsel gtksee - out of date on arm, mips, mipsel guikachu - out of date on arm, mips guppi - out of date on arm, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, sparc hylafax - out of date on arm, mips imlib2 - out of date on arm ivtools - needs 9 days, out of date on mips, mipsel, s390, sparc kdegraphics - out of date on m68k, mips, mipsel kdelibs - out of date on mipsel kismet - out of date on hppa, ia64, mipsel koffice - out of date on arm, hppa, m68k, mips, mipsel lablgtk - out of date on arm, s390 libimager-perl - out of date on s390, needs 3 days librmagick-ruby - out of date on arm, mipsel, sparc lightspeed - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel links2 - out of date on mipsel mountapp - needs one more day, out of date on mipsel opencv - out of date on mips, mipsel, sparc php4-imagick - out of date on mipsel pike7.2 - out of date on mips prestimel - out of date on mipsel primaxscan - needs 5 days projectcenter - needs 8 days, out of date on s390 quiteinsane - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 qvwm - out of date on arm rezound - needs 8 days, out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel, sparc rubymagick - out of date on mipsel ted - needs 5 days, builds viewmol - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel vrweb - out of date on mipsel vtk - out of date on arm wmaker - 0 days old, needs builds xastir - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel xbvl - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel xloadimage - out of date on mips xpcd - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel gimp - out of date on arm xteddy - out of date on arm, m68k, mips, mipsel xzgv - out of date on arm ygraph - out of date on alpha, arm, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc zgv - needs one more day Given the base packages that still need to be addressed to make this happen, our best-case target date to get libtiff4 into testing is 15 Aug. Depending on how the autobuilders do, it may take longer than that, but it looks like two days is enough to get a good chunk of the problem packages out of the way. The ongoing status of this transition can be tracked at http://release.debian.org/tiff-transition.txt. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [vorlon@debian.org] Debian Release Team
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