Da es einige hier interessieren koennte...
Hello again,
Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed
from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0].
acroread libqt3-psql mercury
antlr libsnmp-ruby msyslog
cgiemail lire orbit-mt
chdrv lmbench pfaedit
devel-protocols logtrend-complexalarm popularity-contest
dnrd logtrend-consolidation pptp-linux
efingerd logtrend-doc qtella
eiffelfox logtrend-ftpagent radiusd-freeradius
galeon logtrend-httpagent rie
galeon-beta logtrend-linuxagent sather
garchiver logtrend-mailbridge scilab
gnotepad+-help logtrend-snmpagent syslog-common
honyaku-el logtrend-storageserver ttthreeparser
ilisp logtrend-visuapache velocity
infinity logtrend-visuengine werken.xpath
kernel-patch-mppe makeme xmix
kvdr masqmail xtell
lclint mc-foo
These packages will get a brief chance to be reconsidered in the next few
days, but don't bet too heavily on them making it. From this point on,
packages that are still in testing that have serious, grave or critical
bugs that get removed probably won't get any second chances.
In that vein, I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release
readiness. So, to go out on a limb:
Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002.
Actually, as always, it'll release when it's ready: if we find that the
software doesn't meet our expectations on April 30th, you'll find me on
the ground writhing in pain with leaves, bark and wood all over the place
[1].
Disclaimers aside, the things we've got left to finish of are these:
* Boot-floppies need to be built for sparc and alpha
* The people preparing release notes need to finish them off
* The people preparing CD images need to make sure they're in
a state where they can be told "go" and come up with reliable,
final images for all eleven architectures a few hours later
* apache needs to have its outstanding packaging bugs fixed
* gimp1.2 needs to be fixed on alpha, even with the new pdl
* hppa's db2/loader problem needs to be fixed
* gs-common's license issues need to be resolved
* mozilla's -fPIC problem needs to be fixed
* Uploads need to be done for the following packages whose woody
versions have security problems:
exim-tls
icecast-server
libax25
lockvc
nscd
phpgroupware
xfree86
* A bunch of archive maintenance tasks need to be finished off
(giving the packages listed at the start of this mail a second
chance to get released, some further touchups with the crypto
in main transition, etc)
All these things will be well and truly finished by the 20th (two weeks
away), and should be finished early next week.
For those of you who're working on packages that are crucial for release
but don't have the testing<->unstable buffer to protect us from bugs
you introduce (in particular CD and boot-floppies people) please be
_incredibly_ conservative in _everything_ you do. If you can't prove
beyond any _possible_ question that what you're doing won't break things
that currently work, _do not change them_. No matter how much better it
might be for how many people.
Cheers,
aj
[0] Note: this reflects bugs in the Debian packages of this software; they
may be Debian specific problems, or problems that've been fixed by
the upstream authors. This caveat was brought to you by the Society
for the Prevention of Irate Letters from Upstream Maintainers,
and is being displayed with recycled photons.
[1] I'm going out on a limb, remember.
--
Anthony Towns <ajt@???>
Woody Release Manager
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