Hi folks, while there are some monthes left until freeze for next Debian stable time is running fast and we should make sure that all our packages are in a good shape. Fortunately we have not that much RC bugs left - most of them will be dealt with by package removals (ROM bugs are just filed).
However, several of our packages are hanging in unstable without a migration to testing since some Dependencies have RC bugs. The best way to spot this is by checking the Debian Maintainer Dashboard[1]. This shows packages where dependencies are broken. To give an example I stumbled about anfo which did not migrated to testing due to problems in the package elk[2]. So I just checked the BTS for bugs in elk did apt-get source elk fixed two easy to fix RC bugs which the maintainer did not cared about NMUed and I'm now hoping that anfo will migrate to testing and thus will be part of the next stable release. We need to do this kind of things in the next monthes to make sure our work in Debian Med will finally make it into the release. What else can we do: * Make sure we have the latest and greatest upstream release packaged to be as up to date as possible when stable will be released * Fix more bugs * If we want to get new packages in its time to do it *now* You can do all this mostly "undisturbed" from my personal intervention since I'll go offline for the next 2.5 weeks from next Sunday on. So have a lot of fun, fix bugs and let me realise that all problems are solved once I'm back from vacation. ;-) Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?email1=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.org&format=html#todo [2] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=anfo -- http://fam-tille.de