Phase I of transition accomplished
Hi,
all packages that could be uploaded to the Debian ftp archive have been
installed into the archive by now. (Actually, all except libreadline which
I just uploaded and which will be installed tomorrow).
This is phase I from the transition. You will notice that some critical
packages are missing, though.
Phase II will be a revival of the debian repository at alpha.gnu.org, for
libio (what used to be debian-libio). We will do this as clean as possible.
However, due to an unexpected bug in the Hurd, there is another thing that
needs to be done: Some packages get built with wrong uid/gid on files. This
bug has to be fixed to get correct packages into the archive. I did not
upload broken ones. Unfortunately, some very important packages trigger
this bug, including dpkg, debianutils, base-files and libpng. Except the
latter, all of these are also in the tar file on alpha, so you can still
install the new libio system from that.
As soon as this second part of phase II is done, we can resume auto building
with buildd.
PHASE III will be very important, and includes moving to gcc 3.1, and
getting libc0.3 into the archive. Likely, this can not be accomplished
before woody is released because of deficiencies in the release
procedure (which stalls updates even for non-released architectures).
Thanks,
Marcus
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