Debian Lenny diventa stabile a settembre 2008

Il debian-devel-announce ha stabilito le date di rilascio per Debian Lenny (attualmente nel ramo di testing):

1. Aprile 2008
   Freze of the essential toolchain.
2. Metà Giugno 2008
   Freeze of the non-essential toolchain and all libraries.
3. Metà Luglio 2008
   Full freeze.
4. Inizio Settembre 2008
   Release!

L’annuncio

I successi di Debian Lenny e cosa è stato fatto finora (fonte)

This file lists the current release goals for Lenny and additional candidates which may become a release goal in the future.

#
# Each release goal needs:
# * One or two developers as advocate(s)
# * Someone from the release team tracking the goal’s status
# * Short description explaining what needs to be done
# * Short name used as a tag when user-tagging bug reports related to
# this release goal
# The number of bugs and a way to prevent further problems of the same
# kind should also be listed.
##

# RELEASE GOALS
# =============

# full IPv6 support
Advocate: Martin Zobel-Helas
Description: Support IPv6 in all applications that support services over
IPv4 at the moment.
Bug-Tag: ipv6
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&data=ipv6&archive=no
State: confirmed (inherited from etch)

# double compilation support
Advocate: Martin Zobel-Helas and Luk Claes
Description: All packages should be able to be built twice in a
row.
Bug-User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: qa-doublebuild
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-qa@lists.debian.org&tag=qa-doublebuild
State: confirmed

# No unmet recommends relations inside main
Advocate: Luk Claes
Description: Packages in main should be able to satisfy all recommend
relations in main.
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: goal-recommends
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=goal-recommends
State: confirmed

# Drop debmake from Debian
Advocate: Marc Brockschmidt and Andreas Barth
Description: Update or remove all remaining packages that need debmake
to build, then remove debmake.
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: debmake
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=debmake
State: finished

# I18n support in all debconf-using packages
Advocate: Nicolas Francois and Thomas Huriaux
Release-Team-Contact: Luk Claes
Description: Packages using the Debian configuration management (debconf)
must allow for translation of all messages displayed to the user by
using a gettext-based system like po-debconf.
Bug-User: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: not-using-po-debconf
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-i18n@lists.debian.org&tag=not-using-po-debconf
State: confirmed

# full large file support (LFS)
Advocate: ??
Description: Fix all applications to remove arbitrary file size limits.
Bug-Tag: lfs
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&data=lfs&archive=no
State: confirmed (inherited from etch)

# NFS version 4 support
Advocate: Steinar H. Gunderson
Description: Support version 4 of the NFS protocol everywhere.
Bug-Tag: nfs-v4
State: finished (inherited from etch)

# I18n support for package descriptions
Advocate: Michael Bramer
Release-Team-Contact: Luk Claes
Description: Automate the update of description translations in the
Debian archive.
Update package management frontends to use the translated
descriptions.
Bug-Tag: ddtp
State: confirmed

# UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control
Advocate: Russ Allbery
Release-Team-Contact: ??
Description: Fix all remaining debian/changelog and debian/control
files which don’t use UTF-8. These are easily found by lintian via
debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding and
debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: goal-utf8-control
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=goal-utf8-control
State: finished

# Switch /bin/sh to dash
Advocate: Petter Reinholdtsen?
Release-Team-Contact: ??
Description: Make sure dash is installed and preseed debconf question.
Fix bashisms.
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: goal-dash
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=goal-dash
State: confirmed

# Prepare init.d-Scripts for dependency-based init systems
Advocate: Petter Reinholdtsen
Release-Team-Contact: ??
Description: Fix remaining problems in the LSB headers in init scripts
to allow later switching of the default init to something dependency-
based.
Bug-User: initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
State: confirmed

# piuparts-clean archive
Advocate: Marc Brockschmidt and Luk Claes
Description: All packages should pass the install stable version, upgrade
to unstable version, purge piuparts test.
State: confirmed
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: piuparts-stable-upgrade
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=piuparts-stable-upgrade

# Support for future gcc versions
Advocate: Martin Michlmayr
Release-Team-Contact: Luk Claes
Description: To reduce the amount of build failures early and to ease
transitions we would like to keep the archive in a state such that
it builds with an upcoming GCC release and encourage developers to
fix those build failures early. Tests usually can be done with the
gcc-snapshot package in unstable and GCC versions found in
experimental.
State: confirmed
Bug-User: tbm@cyrius.com
Bug-Tag: ftbfs-gcc-4.3
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=tbm@cyrius.com&tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.3

# Support for python2.5
Advocate: Josselin Mouette , Ari Pollak
Release-Team-Contact: Marc Brockschmidt
Description: Make all packages support python2.5 as standard python
version.
State: confirmed
Bug-User: debian-release@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: goal-python2.5
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-release@lists.debian.org&tag=goal-python2.5

# Transition g77 -> gfortran
Advocate: Kumar Appaiah, Matthias Klose, Riku Voipio
Release-Team-Contact: Neil McGovern
Description: Make packages build with gfortran as a replacement for g77
Bug-User: debian-toolchain@lists.debian.org
Bug-Tag: gfortran
Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-toolchain@lists.debian.org&tag=gfortran
State: confirmed

# CANDIDATES
# ==========

# Dependency/File list predictability
Advocate: Steinar H. Gunderson
Release-Team-Contact: ??
Description: Use the build chroot from hell to detect missing
–disable-foo and –without-foo flags and ensure that only specifically
enabled features are built in.
Bug-Tag: goal-enriched-chroot
Known number: about 90 issues identified, probably around 200 issues in total
State: pre-confirmed

# Set default system fonts depending on the system languages
Advocate: Nicolas Spalinger
Release-Team-Contact: Andreas Barth
Description: Choose fonts to install for each language and devise
a way to set the default font depending on the chosen language.
Bug-Tag: i18n-fonts
State: needs more info

# Enforce usage of dpkg substvars
Advocate: Andreas Barth
Description: Packages should always include ${shlibs:depends} in their
Depends line. If debhelper is used, they should also always use
${misc:depends}.
Bug-Tag: missing-substvars
State: preconfirmed

# Support of vm.overcommit_memory=2
Advocate: Florian Weimer
Release-Team-Contact: Andreas Barth
Description: ???
Bug-Tag: ???
State: ???

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