Re: Preparing the next Release

2006-09-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Steve Langasek wrote: Another transition that today is in an earlier stage is the mozilla-xulrunner transition. I've asked on #debian-release what people thought should be done if seamonkey isn't packaged in time for etch -- should mozilla and all its reverse-deps be dropped because it's not

Preparing the next Release

2006-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, in private Steve and I discussed some release issues, and we both agreed that (a) our output is public and (b) it should happen in public, so here it is dragged into the public. Steve wrote: Broad categories of release-critical bugs that exist today: - packages that FTBFS - security

Re: Preparing the next Release

2006-08-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Martin Schulze: When there is no cups for amd64 in the release, it does not matter whether it FTBFS on amd64 or not, for example. I believe that such FTBFS bugs are already deemed important; they are not release-critical. A lot of porters who file FTBFS bugs disagree, but this doesn't make

Re: Preparing the next Release

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:08:27PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:44:27AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: These bugs are at least to be investigated and maybe resolved in a rather pragmatic way: - packages that FTBFS . on which

Re: Preparing the next Release

2006-08-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: Another transition that today is in an earlier stage is the mozilla-xulrunner transition. I've asked on #debian-release what people thought should be done if seamonkey isn't packaged in time for etch -- should mozilla and all its reverse-deps be dropped because it's not