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Debian Freeze Process Update

Posted by michael on from the cracking-the-whip dept.

snotty6969 writes: "Freeze Update. Anthony Towns sent in an updated report about the Woody freeze process. We're almost into the last week for uploads of base packages. If there are outstanding bugs you'd like to see fixed, provide patches or upload now. We are also getting into the last days for ensuring that standard and task packages get included in the Woody release. At the moment it looks like a lot of packages will be removed from Woody. Among these are a whole bunch of commonly used programs like gpm, Mutt, CVS, Procmail, Apache and Mozilla. People who can fix bugs in these packages and care about them are encouraged to send in patches or upload fixed packages using Anthony's unofficial NMU guidelines."

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  1. Re:Not fantastic by compwizrd · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is their way of forcing the bugs to be fixed, is all, yes.

  2. Who needs attribution, eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This submission was lifted verbatim from the most recent Debian Weekly News. I just felt someone should point this out, since the submitter didn't seem to consider it worth mentioning.

  3. No need for alarm... by HoserHead · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...this, as others have mentioned, is more of a wake-up call to maintainers than anything. Apache _will_ ship with Debian 3.0, because maintainers will make it as bug-free as possible, because they care about it. gpm has already been fixed of most (all?) of its bugs. Similarly, we can expect all of the other major packages to be fixed in the next couple of days.

    Don't worry, people. The packages you care about will be in Debian 3.0. (Including mpg321!) We'll make sure of it. :)

    1. Re:No need for alarm... by Daniel · · Score: 5, Informative

      Indeed, I seem to recall that in past releases, little unimportant packages like libc6, boot-floppies, and dpkg were among the ones being "targeted for removal if you don't fix them" :)

      (feel free to correct me if my memory misfired)

      Daniel

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  4. Re:Debian's standard of quality by CentrX · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's always been a version of mozilla in there, it's just been M18 the whole time. I'm not amazed that mozilla 0.9.x got in, because that's something that I'm sure a lot of people have been saying is important, so it's been looked at more closely.

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