Category Archives: Release-Team

While we working the release, I had a look at how many hints we have deployed during buster like I did for wheezy a few years back.  As it seemed we were using a lot fewer hints than previously and … Continue reading →

We are getting better and better accumulating RC bugs in testing. This is unfortunate because the length of the freeze is strongly correlated with the number of open RC bugs affecting testing. If you believe that Debian should have short … Continue reading →

Updating Britney often makes our life easier. Like: smooth-updates (winter 2011) Adam’s accidental upgrade of the original auto-hinter[1] (winter 2012) A non-leaking installability tester (winter 2013) Fix non-determinism of easy-hinted smooth updatable packages (summer 2014) Support for non-hinted multi-item migrations … Continue reading →

The soft freeze has been on going for almost a month now and the full stretch freeze will start tomorrow night (UTC).  It has definitely been visible in the number of unblock requests that we have received so far.  Fortunately, … Continue reading →

As of today, britney now fetches reports from piuparts.debian.org and uses it as a part of her evaluation for package migration.  As with her RC bug check, we are only preventing (known) regressions from migrating. The messages (subject to change) … Continue reading →

It is the first of October and that means the transition freeze is roughly one month away (Nov 5th 2016). In other words, this is the “final boarding call for transitions”.   Other milestone dates: If you want new packages … Continue reading →

Today, we have completed our first Britney run with mips64el enabled in testing.  🙂 At the current time, the set of packages in mips64el are not very connected (and you probably cannot even install build-essential yet[1]). Hopefully this will change … Continue reading →

I just submitted another patch series to improve Britney for review.  If accepted, they will probably be merged into master within 2 weeks. The changes this time are probably most exciting for people that run/maintain Britney.  Key highlights include: Britney … Continue reading →

I decided to take a couple of days of vacation next to Easter and obviously ended up with tons of time.  I ended up channelling most of the (productive) time into improving Britney. In raw results: I wrote about 35 … Continue reading →

In the 4th quarter of 2016, we will freeze Debian Stretch.  If you are hoping to do any larger changes for Stretch, please consider starting on them now.  This also includes features that need to be in APT/dpkg (etc.) in … Continue reading →