Just before I left DebConf8, the package autobuilder was at 100% in-line with Debian unstable (it has since slipped) and this coincided with the point when the last packages that had an automatic freeze exception because they were uploaded to unstable prior to the Lenny freeze, migrated into testing. Not all subsequent uploads into Debian unstable will now migrate into Lenny, so the point has come to ensure we get the right versions into Emdebian testing. i.e. not upload new versions to Emdebian unstable that will not migrate into Debian Lenny until Emdebian testing is in-sync with Debian Lenny. Therefore, I'm now pausing the target package autobuilder until I can expand emtargetcmp to handle 'testing'. This will allow me to run comparisons between Emdebian testing and Debian testing to ensure that we have the same versions available. Once that is done, the current packages in Emdebian testing will be updated to match current Debian testing. emtargetcmp --testing will then be used to keep the two in sync as RC bugs are fixed. (The actual reprepro commands will need to be done manually at this time, emtargetcmp will simply highlight which packages need to migrate. I might get around to a script to handle that but most of the current RC bugs do not affect packages in Emdebian and some of the ones that do may well be ignored for Lenny.) Naturally, this extra functionality in emtargetcmp will not make it into the version of emdebian-tools actually shipped with Lenny. I have separate plans for backporting some of these changes via the Emdebian stable repository in due course. Emdebian testing currently holds a "snapshot" of a previously working package set and these versions will be replaced (the current versions having been tested as working too). One of the RC bugs relates to busybox (#484700) and severely hampers the installation of Emdebian. This *might* be the one exception in Emdebian 1.0 - if D-I decide to ignore this RC bug for Lenny, I'll upload the busybox 1.11 test package that I have already built, only to Emdebian and migrate it to Emdebian testing, resulting in Emdebian 1.0 being ahead of Debian 5.0 (Lenny) for that one package. (busybox is too important in D-I for me to do an NMU of 1.11 without some form of input from D-I.) I'm preparing the RC upload for emdebian-tools at the moment. I'll then upload the next version to Emdebian to bring the package into line with current SVN, but I'll post separately about those changes. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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