Status of Debian unstable
See DebianUnstable for general information about the "unstable" release of Debian, codenamed "sid".
When will unstable/sid release?
Never. Unstable is never released. You can read more about available versions of Debian at DebianReleases.
Current issues affecting unstable
See OngoingTransitions to read about ongoing library transitions.
Reportbug broken
Refer to [http://bugs.debian.org/370700 #370700] for details. A fixed reportbug is in ["Incoming"].
X upgrade
["Xorg"] was recently transitioned from version 6.9 to 7.0.
Common problems upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7.0 are being documented in Xorg69To7. Check there first if you are having problems
Common Fix: # apt-get install xkb-data
Locales currently broken
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363644 #363644]: What fixed this for one user was upgrading debconf to 1.5.0, purging locales, removing /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale, then reinstalling and reconfiguring locales.
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xdeadbeef ***
This is due to GLIB's new memory allocator which broke some false assumptions, which nevertheless some programs assumed.
Packages affected by this problem is tracked with usertag by Gustavo Franco: See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=stratus@debian.org;tag=gslice
Call your programs with the G_SLICE=always-malloc environment to workaround. Example:
env G_SLICE=always-malloc gnucash
apt pdiff system now active
The pdiff system was recently merged into the mainstream version of ["Apt"]. The saves bandwidth on updates, but may interfere with some more restrictive proxy/mirror configurations, including older versions of apt-cacher.
vim7
The long awaited vim 7.0 has recently been uploaded to unstable, please test it:
Sun's Java implementation in non-free
After Sun announced that they had changed their license to allow OSs to distribute Suns non-free Java implementation, sun-java5 was uploaded to non-free in unstable, which has caused some controversy. See ["Java/Sun"] for details.
Quick links
[http://debian.dabase.com/ Critical bugs in unstable]
- [wiki:Status The Status page]
- [wiki:Status/Stable Status of Stable]
- [wiki:Status/Testing Status of Testing]