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These transitions would not have been finished without a great deal of help and support from a lot of people. You know who you are! Add your name here if you helped!

Things I wanted to fix before we released Etch

Xlibs-dev Transition
- Status: Finished!
- Master Bug
Link in /usr/doc Transition:
- Status: Almost Finished!
- Blog entry explaining the transition and
- 322762
- Recent Lintian findings Most of these packages were not released in Etch.
Cdebconf Transition:
- Status: Finished!
- 328498
- Joeyh explains it
Invoke-rc.d Transition
- Status: Finished!
- Lars explains it
- 438885 (originated from: Bugs reported by Lars, search for invoke-rc.d).
- Lintian findings: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly.
- Lintian related bugs:
  - 353659 lintian: Check for direct use of init.d, when invoke-rc.d should be used instead.
  - 381485 lintian: Also check for not using invoke-rc.d in other scripts.

Things I want fixed before we release '''Lenny'''

debmake is depreciated:
- Status: Finished!
- Santiago Vila explains it
- 469049 (originated from Bugs reported by Santiago Vila, search for debmake).
Release Goal goal-recommends
- Status: Almost Finished!

Things that I never managed to look at:

* Link in /usr/doc Transition: Still not finished!?

322762: /usr/doc may still exist on upgrade of old systems

Release goals for lenny: List of release goals for lenny
Release Goal goal-recommends:
- Bug-Tag: tag=goal-recommends
- Blog entry with a report on my first attempt
- ReleaseGoalRecommends, second attempt
- Status: Being worked on.

* Prepare init.d-Scripts for dependency-based init systems

goal-lsb-init Bug-User: initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org

FTBFS in a row twice:
Debian Edu:
- DebianEdu needs help
debian/watch fails to report upstream's version (minor, not a Release Goal)
- Bugs tagged dehs-no-upstream

For info on ongoing transitions that I am working in, see AmayaRodrigo. Help appreciated!

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+Things that I never managed to look at:

* '''Link in /usr/doc''' Transition: '''Still not finished!?'''
   * DebianBug:322762: /usr/doc may still exist on upgrade of old systems

 * '''Release goals for lenny''': [[http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt|List of release goals for lenny]]

 * '''Release Goal goal-recommends''':
   * Bug-Tag: [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=goal-recommends|tag=goal-recommends]]
   * Blog entry with a [[http://amayita.livejournal.com/184011.html|report on my first attempt]] 
   * ReleaseGoalRecommends, second attempt
   * Status: Being worked on. 

* '''Prepare init.d-Scripts for dependency-based init systems'''
   * goal-lsb-init Bug-User: [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org|initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org]]

 * '''FTBFS in a row twice''':
    * [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg00490.html|Original Explanation]]
    * [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00319.html|Further findings]]
    * [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-doublebuild|qa-doublebuild]]
    * [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org;tag=qa-debdiff|qa-debdiff]]

 * '''Debian Edu''':
    *[[DebianEdu/Bug311188|DebianEdu needs help]]

 * '''debian/watch fails to report upstream's version''' (minor, not a Release Goal)
   * [[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=dehs-no-upstream;users=atomo64@gmail.com|Bugs tagged dehs-no-upstream]]