Status on the Jessie release

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Subject: Status on the Jessie release

From: niels@thykier.net (Niels Thykier)

Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 11:05:56 +0100 (CET)

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 The Jessie freeze is now entering its 4th month. Thanks to many of you, the release have made good process. At this point, an April release is /a possibility/ - *however*, it implies that we all roll up our sleeves and squash those remaining bugs. I will follow up with a dd-list of packages with RC bugs affecting unstable and testing to debian-devel shortly. Known blockers ============== The RC bug list (according to UDD): * 55 RC bugs open, affecting key packages in sid AND jessie[1] - Want to help the release? Help us fix the remaining issues by triaging those bugs and uploading NMU's with targeted fixes. We will start tagging some of these bugs jessie-ignore. That means we will still accept fixes for them (if they are not invasive), but we will /not/ delay the release for them. * 17 RC bugs affecting non-key packages. We will remove these packages from jessie if these bugs are not fixed. If you want to keep them, now is the time to upload an NMU. * The release-notes still need some improvements. In particular, a recovery section for systemd is needed. - It could most likely also do with a "best practise" and a "do this before rebooting after the systemd migration" section (among others). - If you want to help with this, please follow up to #773386. Requests for Help ================= * The Debian GRUB team requested help with the Grub2 RC bugs. Please consider helping with triaging one or more of: - #756253 Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub [...] - #778810 grub-efi-amd64-bin: boot/bootx86.efi problems - #689266 grub-pc: graphics mode sends VGA signal out of range [...] - #741464 grub-pc-bin: freezes after "terminal_input at_keyboard" - #777191 grub-efi-amd64 on Debian Jessie cannot boot zfs native ...] - #778810 grub-efi-amd64-bin: boot/bootx86.efi problems - #735932 [grub2-common] Computer does not boot News ==== * Part of our buildd infrastructure need to be upgraded to Jessie prior to the release. Here, DSA and the wanna-build admins have migrated servers from about 5 out of 10 architectures. The rest will hopefully follow soon. * We have had numerous issues with upgrades due to trigger cycles. Unfortunately, we had to request a revert of the trigger cycle checks in dpkg for Jessie and the trigger cycles are now handled as they were in Wheezy (i.e. silently ignored). * There have a bit of progress on existing "jessie-is-blocker" bugs. - #759530, we suspect the problem being corrupted aux-caches and ldconfig simply not doing any validation of the cache before using it. Aurelien Jarno is currently reviewing the proposed patch and plans to discuss it with upstream. - #779048, we need a upgrade path from libjpeg-progs to libjpeg-turbo-progs for Jessie. Most likely, it is just a question of adding a versioned Breaks in libjpeg62-turbo on libjpeg-progs, some upgrade testing and a dupload. * We were made aware of a upgrade issue due to the old dependency cycle between perl and perl-modules. The maintainers and the perl team have already patched the affected packages and the last of them have already migrated to testing. * Cyril Brulebois suggested that the debian-installer RC2 release is steady approaching. Kudos ===== * A big thanks to Ansgar Burchardt for backporting patches from the debian-specific buildd version of sbuild. This allowed us to start the upgrade of the buildd infrastructure to Jessie. Also many thanks to the people involved on the buildd and DSA side their fast and dedicated work on migrating the hosts so far. * Thanks to the security team for reviewing some of the current security bugs and proposing removals, severity adjustments etc. * Thanks to the Perl Team for their efficient resolution of the perl dependency cycle. Thanks, Niels, on behalf of the Debian Release Team. 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