Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

Hi, Well, just in case it wasn't obvious to everyone from looking at the release-critical bug stats, we should probably come out and say it: the the count of release critical issues affecting sarge is still going down, but it's not yet down to zero, which means no release this weekend. But we

Release update: freeze progress, closing date for non-RC fixes

Hi-ho, We're now two weeks into the freeze, and the count of release critical bugs affecting sarge is dwindling. Unfortunately, due to a number of RC bugs that were found after the freeze announcement, even though we've closed out about 50 RC bugs with your help during these past two weeks, the

Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts

Hello world, Anthony Towns has committed a minor change to the britney script which manages updates of packages to testing, and as a result packages are no longer being accepted into testing without hand-approval by a member of the release team. Wait, that didn't come out quite right. Let's try

Release update: Are we there yet? (infrastructure, no major changes (please), ...)

Hello world, Since the most recent release update, there have been a couple of improvements. First of all, the most important one for most of you is that thanks to the hard work of Ryan Murray and the other buildd admins, the infrastructure for testing-security is more or less in place

Release update: debian-installer, kernels, infrastructure, freeze, etch, arm

Hello world, Let's take a break from talking about etch plans to talk about sarge again, shall we? Debian Installer RC3, kernels - The RC3 release of the debian-installer has been published. As Joey Hess mentions in his announcement[0], this has been the

Release update: debian-installer, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

Hello, world, Kernel updates -- A kernel/d-i team meeting was recently held to review the status of 2.6.8. The team leads involved eventually decided to stay with kernel 2.6.8 and 2.4.27, rather than bumping the 2.6 kernel to 2.6.10. This decision was made upon review of the

Release update: Qt, arts, arm, yes; freeze date, no

to testing. The #3 blocker, kdelibs 3.3, is still not being considered as a candidate for sarge. Release-critical updates to KDE packages still need to be uploaded to testing-proposed-updates. The last release update mentioned that in the toolchain, gcc was fixed in sarge but binutils fixes were

Release update: lib transitions, toolchain fixes, buildd backlog

It's been a few weeks since the last update from the release team[1], at which time the projected schedule had us freezing testing and releasing d-i RC2 today, so we're overdue for another update. First, let's take a look at what we have and haven't accomplished since August 7. Things we've

Release update: base and standard frozen

You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! As of last night, thanks to Daniel Silverstone, no more base (as installed by debootstrap) or standard (by priority) packages will be accepted into testing from unstable. Fixes for RC and important bugs, as well as updated package translations,

Release update

Hello world. There's a steadily increasing buzz about the status of the sarge release, now that the new installer is on the home stretch. The release team has been hard at work on finalizing a viable release schedule, but it will take a little more time yet before that's ready to be announced.