Stabil lett a Lenny?

Tegnapi Debian Project News levele errol:

Release Update

Luk Claes [1]reported about the state of the upcoming stable release
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny". While there are still a lot of release
critical bugs open, he explained that there is only "a `short list' of
bugs that must absolutely be fixed for Lenny". At the moment the most
important blocking issue is the missing second release candidate for
the debian-installer, which is still [2]being worked on. Christian
Perrier [3]pointed out, that the best way to help the debian-installer
team is to test the so called "daily" builds of the installation
images, which are available from the [4]debian-installer website.

1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg00006.html
2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00209.html
3: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/12/msg00228.html
4: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

The release could also be affected by the outcome of the recently
[5]started vote on the General Resolution titled "Lenny and resolving
DFSG violations". The vote has been discussed controversially on the
debian-vote mailing list; for the full discussion please refer to the
mailing list [6]archives.

5: http://www.debian.org/vote/2008/vote_003
6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote

In related news, Peter Palfrader [7]wondered whether the PA-RISC
architecture (also known as "HPPA") is currently fit to be released
with Lenny, since Debian's own HPPA infrastructure is in very bad
shape. When several people offered their private HPPA hardware, Martin
Zobel-Helas [8]pointed out, that the real problem is not missing
hardware, but a kernel related issue, which needs to be fixed. Helge
Deller [9]reported on progress regarding that issue, but it is not yet
fixed completely.

7: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2008/12/msg00000.html
8: http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/12/msg00381.html
9: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2008/12/msg00009.html

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