What seems to need to be done before release (apart from the usual
bug-squashing / buggy package removal, etc.):
* glibc 2.3.2 which works on hppa needs to be finished and uploaded.
(Carlos is apparently close to done with this....)
* gcc 3.3 which works on arm needs to be finished and uploaded. (This
was a Pascal-only problem last I checked -- haven't heard any status info.
Actually, I'm a little confused by this, since GCC isn't listed as out-of-date
for any architecture in testing -- is it already fixed or something?)
* buildd's need to get the new toolchain in place to avoid problems with
building other packages.
* lcms dependency chain needs to get in. (Colin Watson is working on this.)
* libsgc++ dependency chain should get in. (This will probably go in on
its own if everything just sits for a few more days -- there appear to
be no actual bugs holding it out right now)
* KDE 3 needs to get in.
-- qt-x11-free needs to be built on mips (timeout problem)
-- buildd's need new gcc in place for kdemultimedia
-- arts needs libtool update for arm
-- Chris Cheney & others need to upload rest of kde 3.1.4
* python2.3 transition needs to go on (many people are working on this).
* Mozilla 1.4 going in.
-- 2 RC bugs
-- still isn't building on ia64 and arm apparently
-- should probably sarge-ignore the 4 woody-only RC bugs after
the above are fixed
This needs more attention from porters than it's getting. :-(
* Other Gnome 2 issues -- I don't know about these; I don't use gnome.
* debian-installer -- I'm still unclear on what needs to be done, but
apparently powerpc and i386 are the only two which really work right now
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What would be really nice if it was done:
* glibc which doesn't use stock kernel headers finished and uploaded.
* c102 transition finished, or all untransitioned packages removed: see
http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/
Things are close, really close. (I wish willy would upload an updated
db2 which drops db2++ already.)
* Out-of-date-binaries-in-testing fixed up (there are not very many)
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_outdate.txt
* Uninstallable binaries in testing fixed up (a list of reasons for each
one wouldn't hurt in dealing with this....)
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_probs.html
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
