Hello! It seems we can soon merge ‘core-updates’. So far Hydra has been building the core packages of that branch, and the only problem left is the cross-compilation of the bootstrap GCC (‘%gcc-static’ in make-bootstrap.scm), which is annoying but not blocking (see <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59217> for details.) Mark has also been building some of it on the Loongson.
So I just switched Hydra to build all the packages of that branch at <http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/core-updates> instead of just the core. And then, if we don’t notice anything terrible within a couple of days, we can probably merge to ‘master’. Ludo’.