step-by-step release schedule.
All base packages are to be RC-bugs-free. After step 2, you can update packages iff:
"freeze" does not obstruct you to update packages. We entrust base-packages-maintainer. base-package-maintainer takes care of this duration.
debian-installer should be released until step 1. Predicting this period is _DIFFICULT_. We should estimate it using and analyzing the remained base RC bugs.
Once base packages are RC bug free, we announce and start non-base packages freeze period. It should be _FIXED_ duration. Gotom thinks 2-3 weeks are appropriate. In this period, we drop uninstallable and totally broken packages without maintainers agreement. You can revive such dropped packages with NMU or update. It's called as "freeze" phase in the ex-pool term. We prepare the release announcements.
The desicion of releasing sarge is the task of release management team. Now all maintainers can update packages without considering breakage.
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(FYI, you can see raw information from http://ftp.debian.or.jp/~kmuto/ and http://kmuto.jp/debian/debootstrap/ These files are rotated per 4 hours)
The below listed packages which installed from the below tasks should be RC bug free before releasing sarge. Tasksel 2.0 seems dropping various tasks, so it may be trivial to consider about tasks.
checking with apt-listbugs, http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/debian/all.html , http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/base.cgi :
Actual remained sarge-base-RC bugs are: 13. (last updated by hand: 2004-07-06 15:00 JST gotom)
These bug are pulled from 0.sarge-base-RC by hand. [FIXED by NMU] means this bug is already fixed by NMU.
critical grave serious
bash 0 0 1 (will be fixed in 2.0.5b-17)
cyrus-sasl 0 0 1 (FTBFS, MUST BE FIXED, dependency inconsistency)
exim 1 0 0 [FIXED, bug report is incorrect, maintainer is lazy]
gcc-3.0 0 0 1 [WONTFIX, SARGE-IGNORE]
glibc 0 1 0 (will be fixed in the next version)
modconf 0 2 0 (proposed fix is available. This bug seems wishlist)
openldap2 0 4 (1) 0 (#234613: it needs test for confirming bugs)
(#257513: user environment problem? it needs confirmation)
(#244827: GNUTLS vs OpenSSL problem? it needs confirmation)
perl 0 1 1 (gcc-2.9x issue. it needs more investigation, it's bug)
sysklogd 0 0 1 (see above)
sysvinit 0 0 1 (see above)
texinfo 0 0 1 (discussion is partially stopped since Nov 2003. Maintainer is lazy)
critical bugs of libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7d-3 -> ) <open> #253848 - libssl0.9.7 segfaults on arm processors. critical bugs of libldap2 (2.1.30-1 -> ) <open> #245314 - libldap2: rdn modification can result in destroying entry critical bugs of partconf (-> ) <open> #220949 - install: Installer overwrites user data without warning critical bugs of yaboot (-> ) <open> #244484 - yabootconfig ignores initrd images grave bugs of parted (-> ) <open> #250528 - Partition table interpretation error on kernel 2.6 grave bugs of libldap2 (2.1.30-1 -> ) <open> #234613 - libldap2: cannot malloc secure memory when not root Merged with: 238771 grave bugs of mdadm (-> ) <open> #231823 - mdadm: mdrun fails with upstream kernels 2.6.2 and 2.6.3-rc1 grave bugs of libc6 (2.3.2.ds1-13 -> ) <open> #234691 - mkisofs: SIGBUS on sparc32 + sparc64 grave bugs of libgpmg1 (1.19.6-12.1 -> ) <open> #142743 - w3m: crashes if no terminal device is available Merged with: 155803 166912 171469 grave bugs of libgcrypt7 (1.1.90-1.1 -> ) <open> #228855 - Bus Error on mutt startup with imap (sparc64) Merged with: 242666 242668 grave bugs of ifupdown (0.6.4-4.8 -> ) <open> #208811 - ifupdown: Preinst fails if /etc/network absent grave bugs of partman (-> ) <open> #241785 - On two identical IDE disk with equal number of partitions assigning mount point of a partition on the second disk assignes a mount point on the first instead. However afterwards the partition on the second disk can be selected to be mounted and the partition on the first disk deselected. Merged with: 246909 255597 serious bugs of pppoe (3.5-3 -> ) <open> #132117 - pppoe: Files in etc not marked as conffiles serious bugs of sparc-utils (-> ) <open> #216131 - sparc-utils lacks build dependencies serious bugs of net-tools (1.60-10 -> ) <open> #83894 - installs manpages that conflict with manpages-fr serious bugs of sysklogd (1.4.1-14 -> ) <open> #245513 - sysklogd: FTBFS on s390 - missing atomic_t / __KERNEL__ serious bugs of cpio (2.5-1.1 -> ) <open> #184887 - LSB 1.3 test suite failures serious bugs of libgcrypt7 (1.1.90-1.1 -> ) <open> #224588 - libgcrypt7: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends serious bugs of sysvinit (2.85-20 -> ) <open> #256524 - needs APT::Force-LoopBreak option to update from woody to sid serious bugs of libident (0.22-2.2 -> ) <open> #209057 - libident: Fail to build on several autobuilders Summary: pppoe(1 bug), parted(1 bug), sparc-utils(1 bug), net-tools(1 bug), libssl0.9.7(1 bug), libldap2(2 bugs), mdadm(1 bug), libc6(1 bug), libgpmg1(1 bug), sysklogd(1 bug), partconf(1 bug), cpio(1 bug), libgcrypt7(2 bugs), sysvinit(1 bug), ifupdown(1 bug), libident(1 bug), partman(1 bug), yaboot(1 bug)
critical bugs of libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7d-3 -> ) <open> #253848 - libssl0.9.7 segfaults on arm processors. grave bugs of libgpmg1 (1.19.6-12.1 -> ) <open> #142743 - w3m: crashes if no terminal device is available Merged with: 155803 166912 171469 grave bugs of perl (5.8.4-2 -> ) <open> #231082 - spamassassin: spamc hangs since most recent perl package updates for stable #256314 - has issues with tying read only arrays (DB_File,O_RDONLY) grave bugs of mime-support (3.26-1 -> ) <open> #190413 - "Security patch is fundamentally broken" serious bugs of perl (5.8.4-2 -> ) <open> #247176 - perl_5.8.4-1(ia64/unstable): FTBFS: segv in miniperl serious bugs of gdb (-> ) <open> #212522 - gdb package contains non-free GNU FDL documentation serious bugs of ssh (-> ) <open> #211644 - ssh: multiple license problems #252676 - sshd failure Merged with: 257514 serious bugs of rcs (-> ) <open> #249106 - FTBFS: Refuses to build as root serious bugs of texinfo (-> ) <open> #218976 - Contains /usr/share/info/dir.old.gz if rebuilt on current sid serious bugs of cpp (-> ) <open> #200003 - cpp: contains non-free manpages serious bugs of libnss-db (-> ) <open> #165298 - FTBFS: Build failure of libnss-db on i386 #173082 - libnss-db_2.2-6.1(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: assumes __LT_SPINLOCK_INIT is int serious bugs of doc-debian (-> ) <open> #207549 - doc-debian: copyright status of some documents unclear serious bugs of bison (-> ) <open> #218478 - [NMUpend] Contains /usr/share/info/dir.gz if rebuilt on current sid Summary: libgpmg1(1 bug), perl(3 bugs), gdb(1 bug), libssl0.9.7(1 bug), ssh(2 bugs), rcs(1 bug), texinfo(1 bug), cpp(1 bug), libnss-db(2 bugs), doc-debian(1 bug), bison(1 bug), mime-support(1 bug)