Which packages will hold up the release?
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Looking at the list of RC bugs the packages seems to fall in two
categories. Packages I don't use and packages I don't feel comfortable
in touching (glibc being an example of the latter).
I don't know the reason for some packages being marked [REMOVE] but it
seems to me that it is not just an 'This package is not essential for
a releas an useful distribution'. For an example I don't guess that
gkrellm-alltraxclock[0] is in any way a package that people think
should really hold up the release.
0) Sorry, just a random pick.
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There are some packages we should have if we want Debian to be a
general purpose distribution. I guess we can have a long flamewar
about which packages this includes and in the end it is the release
manager's decission but it is probally something like:
- whatever in the Base Utils-section
- Gnome
- KDE
- nethack
- apache
- XFree
- ssh
- Mozilla (some sort of)
- Emacs (some sort of)
- VI (some sort of)
- Perl
- LaTeX
- ... And then some pacakges I've forgot...
And then depencies and build-depancies for these packages is needed
too. Has anyone tried to make such list of packages we can't release
without and made a list of RC-bugs in excatly those packages?
I believe this is the bugs it would be most effective to actack when
the packages I'm personally directly interested in. It can be hard to
look at the RC-list and decide if the time is better spend fixing
libtse3, libvorbisfile3, or fam.
A script that reads packages I'm interested in and prints out the
RC-bugs I should try to fix would be usable. Does anyone have such
script?
Is this an egoistic approach to fixing RC-bugs? Yeah, and so what?
- it is the best possible motivation I can think of.
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