[Posted to debian-devel by Drew Scott Daniels.]
debian-release@lists.debian.org is the best place to discuss this. I'm going to start posting this unofficial status report there like I did for my freeze date estimate last month in http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200306/msg00004.html
Again, I'm having trouble keeping this up to date and accurate, but here it is as I'll likely be busy for the next few weeks. I'll try to post another message updating this stuff again next month, but next time it'll be to debian-release.
Note I don't think I've updated the menu and translation items yet.
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 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 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-200306/msg00480.html apears to be the 4.3.0 release plan. http://packages.qa.debian.org/xfree86 shows 4.2.1-9 is in unstable (and I'm expecting will be in testing in 2 days).
- 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.
- 1 KDE (3.1?)? 3.1.1 is in unstable. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00424.html suggests tracking the kdebase package. The thread at http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2003/debian-kde-200306/msg00278.html talks about the current transition status.
- 1 libpng transition: versioned symbols are now available. 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 described a past situation, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00619.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 there was a libmysqlclient12 bug, 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?) In http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200307/msg00002.html I give some status information. Some of Gnome2 is in testing.
- 2 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 I'm unsure what's holding up an upload of Kaffe (I haven't asked).
- 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, and there are now proposed patches.
- 1 Apache2, Apache and php4: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg00916.html Also http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200306/msg00026.html says gdbm needs a new apache2 which has a new RC bug, waits for openldap2, and libapr0-dev in testing depends on libgdbmg1-dev which is gone. Apache2 has a version in testing.
- 3 ocaml status? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200306/msg01062.html says there's a new target of getting 3.07 in.
- 1 openldap2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2003/debian-release-200307/msg00001.html openldap2 is blocking quite a few things and it looks like it'll all be fixed "soon" (10 days+NEW queue?)
Some other notes:
Old items that I haven't updated because I consider them to be resolved for now: