Unofficial Release Related Info and Links

Read http://www.debian.org/devel/testing first.

Read the Release-Updates (e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg00010.html )

See the release team site http://release.debian.org/

See http://wiki.debian.net/?UnofficialSargeReleaseIssues to know what is blocking for the release (a little bit outdated)

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

• Sarge RC policy: http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt

• 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

• 2005/03/02 testing-proposed-updates and testing-security buildd's still need programming and setup?
• ...

Current proposals:

• Archive Verification for Sarge? (DWN article at: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/08/ )

• Linux kernel for Sarge (DWN article at: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2005/06/ says 2.6.8 for 2.6)

• ...

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.

• New Release Prospectus at: VancouverProspectus

• 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://merkel.debian.org/~joeyh/testing-security.html

• 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• http://www.debian.org/devel/testing under "My package is stalled because it's out of date on some architecture.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.

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258437

• Out-of-date binaries: http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php

• ...

Other resources (todo/links to find)?

• debian-installer (d-i) info?
• Answer "Release Candidate" means? (i.e. brittany qualificaitons 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 dependancies (like flac, openldap, shadow...).