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+ Fix piuparts problems [RG:P]
+ Mass upgrade tests
Package team news
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* The glibc team sent a "Bits from the GNU Libc
Maintainers" [GLIBC] with a
detailed list of remaining issues, and the progress in
their handling.
Since that mail, the source of #442858 has been found,
it's not really a
bug but a gcc change that needs more flags to be passed
to the compiler
at link time, and that fact will be documented soon.
We would like to see more mails like this one without us
needing to ask for
them, as it helps the Release Team planning the freeze.
* KDE 4.1 prepared in experimental
The Qt/KDE team has decided to focus on getting KDE 4.1
in shape and thus
stop efforts on KDE 4.0.x. This version is not released
yet, but development
snapshots from the KDE upstream subversion repository are
available. These
are partially available from experimental, but still need
further work. A
usable version ready for broader testing will hopefully
be available in the
next months. As Qt 4.4 is needed for the new KDE
packages, its first
release candidate will be uploaded to unstable really
soon.
On the KDE 3.5.9 front, no big changes are to reported.
It has finally
migrated to testing and it looks like there will be no
3.5.10 release.
* GNOME 2.22 on its way to lenny
The last GNOME release, 2.22, entails some big changes,
migrating away
from the well-known gnome-vfs to gvfs, a similar, but
saner implementation
of a virtual file system in glib. As these changes are
not perfectly
mature yet, some of the packages more affected by them,
like the nautilus
file manager, have only been uploaded to experimental.
Most other packages
have entered unstable and some already migrated to lenny.
In the coming
weeks, the first bug fix release, 2.22.1 is scheduled to
be uploaded
and move to testing.
* Iceweasel/Firefox and other Mozilla stuff.
A xulrunner 1.9b4 package has been recently uploaded in
experimental
after some unfortunate delays. Testing and porting work
can now be
started on reverse dependencies with the goal to have all
these
built against xulrunner 1.9 when lenny is released.
A new upload for version 1.9b5 will happen shortly.
Following this, a new
iceweasel 3.0 beta (built on top of xulrunner) will be
uploaded to
experimental.
While waiting for this to happen, an iceweasel 3.0 beta
already
available in experimental for users to test. It has a
known issue
that icons aren't displayed unless you install
iceweasel-gnome-support.
The Team's plans with respect to iceape and icedove are
unclear at the
moment as it's unsure which new upstream releases will
happen in time
for lenny.
Essential Packages frozen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For reading this far, you receive the small reward of the
knowledge that
packages marked as essential will not automaticaly migrate
to testing any
more. Read as: the freeze process for the upcoming release
of Debian Lenny
started. If you need your package unblocked, please contact
the release
team on its canonical address: debian-release
lists.debian.org.
Default syslog
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We are currently discussing to change the default syslog
daemon to rsyslog.
There is no final decision yet, but things look rather
optimistic. If you
want, you can of course already try out rsyslog on your
system.
Tricks from the Release Team
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you want to know the wanna-build status of your package,
[WB] has some nice
informations for you, like which package builds on which
buildd, and who much
the "needs-build" queue is filed up for an
architecture. You can also just
query your package.
Cheers,
Martin Zobel-Helas
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