Unofficial Release Related Info and Links
Read http://www.debian.org/devel/testing first.
Read the Release Updates
See the release team site http://release.debian.org/
RC Bugs and blockers
RC Bug Squashing Primer: http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/rc-bugsquashing.html
Filter more updated RC bug list using: http://tinyurl.com/5vgtq (bts.turmzimmer.net)
Why is package X not in testing yet? (includes top blocking packages): http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/
Definition: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
Canonical RC bug lists: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
- See below for info about missing binaries.
- debian installer bugs?
ftp.debian.org bugs (see packages needing removal): http://bugs.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
- ...
Misc
Responsibilities of ftp masters (e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/02/msg00184.html ).
debian-release@d.o officially archived on the web at http://lists.debian.org/debian-release (perhaps searchable keywords to http://www.google.com/search?q=%22debian-release%22+site%3Alists.debian.org )
See ReleaseProposals for proposed/proposing changes to the release process.
Release documentation is handled by debian-doc? Release notes under development at: http://cvs.debian.org/ddp/manuals.sgml/release-notes/en/release-notes.en.sgml?cvsroot=debian-doc
Real i386 info: http://higgs.djpig.de/upgrade-i386/
Testing security issues: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/status/release/testing
buildd status: http://buildd.debian.org/stats (and http://buildd.net/ ?)
Package hasn't been uploaded for one or more architectures,
http://www.debian.org/devel/testing under "My package is stalled because it's out of date on some architecture. What do I do?"
Check the buildd logs ( http://buildd.debian.org ) for failures and queue status (see http://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ ).
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-porting
- It's better to have a buildd build a package to make sure that one can be used to do any future security builds.
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Other resources (todo/links to find)?
- debian-installer (d-i) info?
- Answer "Release Candidate" means? (i.e. britney qualifications list)
- Relate info above to availability and temporary problems (was in early revisions of this page?)
- Relate above info to new or critical uploads (was in early revisions of this page?)
- It'd be nice to show packages that have a large tree of reverse dependencies (like flac, openldap, shadow...).