I didn't have much of a chance to update this report to be accurate to more than from a few days ago, but here it is as I'll likely be busy for the next few days. I'll try to post another message updating this stuff again next month. Note I haven't included the latest apt translation announcement or the much discussed menu system update announcement.
I may not be pointing to the canonical locations. My guesses about priorities (1-3) of things to be done before Sarge is released is below with status information. I'm unsure as to where to get status information about some things in the second paragraph below (which is mainly about packages). 2 Installer TODO: http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/doc/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup 1 Debian installer Ports(and architectures?) status: http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/ports-status.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200305/msg00445.html says all ports not likely for sarge. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200305/msg00165.html talks about the hurd status. http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/debian/packages.html seems to show that the super H (sh) is almost ready (all base compiled). 2 i386 libc support? (The large thread starting with http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01895.html and going into the May archive talks about this). Do we have to wait for upstream to fix this? We want to stay compatible with other distributions which broke support for i386 in libc. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00360.html describes the current situation. 1 gcc 3.3 (and g++ abi change?) transition status (versions with c102 suffix): http://people.debian.org/~rmurray/c++transition.html a search reveils: http://www.google.ca/search?as_q=c102&num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=packages.debian.org&safe=images but this search is inaccurate. It only tells about the last crawled i386 package pages and includes packages that depend/recomend/suggest these i386 c102 packages. g++-3.2 and 3.3 have the same ABI. Transition should now be done to 3.3, but I beleive this means packages already compiled with 3.2 should still work. 2 Release Critical Bugs status: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ 1 Problems in testing: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_probs.html 2 IPV6 status & status guesses: http://debdev.fabbione.net/cgi-bin/getstats 3 Debian Description Translation Projects (DDTP?) status: http://ddtp.debian.org/stats/ with an anoncment ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200304/msg00015.html ) of an APT with translation support. Also: http://www.de.debian.org/international/l10n/ has status and ranked information about l10n and i18n in package Descriptions and templates. http://www.de.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#i18n (in development) talks about howto do l10n, i18n, and m17n. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00348.html discusses 4 basic goals. 2 UTF-8 or UTF8? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01520.html suggests a status site. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg02012.html talks about the current list of programs with i18n support disabled. 3 Package attributes: (Is done by "tags" and/or keywords. I'd like to include upstream trove information): http://deb-usability.alioth.debian.org/debtags/index.html has details of the tag Package browser, debtags package information and links to other package tag discussions/information. 3 Menu system update to conform to http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html (as suggested in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg00800.html ) The old update was abandonded but contributes to the new standard. 3 AMD x86-64 port? Several threads have been on debian-devel about this. i386 packages will aparently work for this arch. (Note: According to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01975.html AMD prefers the port to be called AMD64 and not x86-64 or alike) "gcc-3.3 is a prerequisite" says http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00360.html There is also a mailing list at http://lists.debian.org/debian-x86-64 to replace the old alioth mailing list. 2 flex transition: Silently a major revision of flex came into unstable and broke parts of openoffice.org, postgresql and many others. flex-old is now available so a slower transition can be allowed while not delaying sarge. 1 XFree86 status (sarge'll have 4.3.0, 4.2.1 was been abandonded due to gcc compilation issues, but is back): http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/debian-x-200305/msg00134.html gives some status and information about how to help. http://lists.debian.org/debian-x86-64/2003/debian-x86-64-200305/msg00003.html asks for help to port 4.3.0 to the AMD64 (aka x86-64). http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/debian-x-200305/msg00201.html says 4.2.1-7 is planned to be released again. 1 Linux Kernel: The thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg01334.html discusses how the kernel source, images, patches and related packages need to be handled differnely, especialy for security update reasons. 3 Linux kernel 2.6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg00964.html there were some potential Debian Installer (d-i) issues listed in the same thread. In http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00397.html aj says not to wait for 2.6. 2.5 was feture frozen October 31, 2002 ? The thread at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg02113.html discusses how 2.5 can work. m68k still uses 2.2 and it's hoped that 2.2 won't be in sarge+1. Rummors of a release this summer are discussed, but it's also predicted to be "unstable" for a while after it goes to 2.6. 2 KDE (3.1?)? Is there a status site? 3.1.1 is in unstable. 1 libpng transition: debian-devel has some discussion about this archived for Jan and Jul 2002. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200207/msg01106.html is quite interesting. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01079.html lists some more info. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01880.html describes the current situation. 3 QT transition (Qt2->Qt3)? Mentioned in thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg00217.html 3 MySQL 4: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mysql-dfsg.html (note the current license bug on libmysqlclient12, it isn't lgpl and there's openssl vs gpl and gpl vs lgpl licence issues) http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200305/msg00253.html discusses the current situation. 1 Gnome2: http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html (is the imlib png library compatiblility issue involve here?) It looks like most of gnome2 will be going into testing soon. 3 Java (some packages were in contrib/non-free because they wouldn't work with free Java implementations (ie kaffe). kaffe is free but marked [REMOVE], (Sun's jre isn't?), gjc and gij need some work acording to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01210.html An old, but still relevant java faq is at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq Is Kaffe waiting for a DSA before it's RC bugs are fixed? 3 guile 1.4 -> 1.6 transition? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00255.html Josselin Mouette says in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg01079.html that 1.6 is broken. It seems we'll be sticking with 1.4 for a while. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=guile-1.6 p.qa.d.o and bugs.d.o seems to indicate that only build issues are holding back guile 1.6 Some other notes: Boot-floppies status (very likely *has to* be replaced with the debian-installer): http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/ Packages not in testing reasons and prioraty lists: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ Testing information: http://www.debian.org/devel/testing Update excuses: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz Update output: http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_output.txt Archives of the mailing list for "Coordinating Debian releases" (includes assignments and reports on assignments): http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/ QA information (links to info on RC bugs and alike): http://qa.debian.org A Woody+1 (aka sarge) release goal wishlist: http://people.debian.org/~erich/woody+1/ Discussion about Woody+1 (goals) at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200205/msg02497.html Older (hamm, slink) release goals: http://people.debian.org/~joey/goals/ Info about release(d) revisions of Stable: http://people.debian.org/~joey/stable.html Website translation status: http://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/ Debian keys trust metrics: http://people.debian.org/~weasel/weboftrust/ (It'd be nice to see a higher trust metric.) Package Popularity (popularity-contest): http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ Devel todo list: http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/ General information about sarge: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ Package diff bethween Debian testing and unstable: http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz 3 gzip rsync patch (patch will be removed or fixed for alphas): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=gzip this was fixed, but there's still a bug set to hold the rsync patch out of testing. 2 ocaml status? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200304/msg00986.html and bug 187155. Done? http://lists.debian.org/debian-ocaml-maint/2003/debian-ocaml-maint-200304/msg00091.html seems to say it is. 3 fhs status: http://qa.debian.org/fhs.html Done, see the bugs. 3 Postgresql (uprade bug fixed, but flex bug is kludged, help needed) 3 Ooo (OpenOffice.org 1.0.3?): More info at least on the debian ooo mailing list, is there a status site? http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openoffice.org.html shows some info 2 Perl transition (5.6-5.8): The debian-perl list might have an up to date status, is there a status site? Perl 5.8.0-17 is in testing now. 2 Postgresql 7.3.2r1-5 is in testing 2 Python transition: 2.2.2-6 is in testing. http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2003/debian-python-200304/msg00010.html shows part of how it finnished. Drew Daniels
