Bits from the nippy Release Team

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Subject: Bits from the nippy Release Team

From: "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:23:28 +0100

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Hi, It's almost a month since the freeze was put in place, so it's time for another epistle^Wupdate. Unblock requests; help us to help you ------------------------------------- Although the timing of the freeze was known several months in advance, there's nevertheless been a flurry of requests for packages to be unblocked or uploads to be approved. We are working through the outstanding requests but would ask that you be patient and bear with us, particularly if your request involves non-trivial changes. If you have submitted your request via a mail to debian-release rather than via the BTS then we would encourage you to consider filing it as a bug - "reportbug release.debian.org" and selecting the "unblock" option will set the correct usertags for you. This allows us to track the status of requests more easily and efficiently, and reduces the likelihood that your mail may get inadvertently overlooked in the surrounding sea of unblock requests. Automatic freeze exceptions --------------------------- As previously announced, packages which were in unstable at the point of the freeze were granted an automatic freeze exception for that specific version of the package. In the Squeeze cycle those exceptions were effective for the period of a month after freeze, which worked well; if a package has not migrated within a month despite the automatic exception then it is unlikely that it will do so without a further upload; in any case we would wish to review the changes in more detail as the freeze progresses. Any remaining automatic exceptions will therefore be retired after the final britney run on July 30th - i.e. one month after freeze. Bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs... ------------------------- As mentioned in the freeze announcement [RT:FRZ], the number of RC bugs in wheezy is still significantly larger than would normally be expected at the start of a freeze. Please feel encouraged to fix a bug (or three) from the list [BTS:RC] to help get issues resolved in testing. Release Notes ------------- If there have been significant changes to your package since the Squeeze release which you believe users should be aware of when upgrading, please file a bug against the release-notes pseudo-package. Proposed text is appreciated, although not essential. Surprise! --------- It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to announce that Debian 8.0 will be known as "Jessie". Regards, Adam for the Release Team [BTS:RC] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/testing.html [RT:FRZ] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00009.html