Category Archives: Release-Team

About 5-6 weeks ago, I wrote about the Wheezy release progress, so it is about time for another update.  According to UDD, we are down to 204 RC bugs (down from 249, since my last post).  It is not quite … Continue reading →

In December, I wrote a post on the progress of the Wheezy release.  Back then, we had 348 RC bugs in testing and today there are about 249 left.  A bit of simple math put us at 99 RC bugs … Continue reading →

Wheezy has been frozen for 5-and-(almost-)a-half months now. Last month, Neil sent a mail to d-d-a stating that there were 403 RC bugs left and today UDD claims there are 348 left.  My “pre-coffee^Wtea” math gets this to an average … Continue reading →

For the past 5 days, I have worked on replacing a part of Britney (our beloved testing migration tool).  The part I am trying replacing is her “installability tester”, which is probably one of the most used parts of Britney. … Continue reading →

While looking at the dpkg Breaks-field[0]… $ aptitude show dpkg Package: dpkg […] Version: 1.16.1.2 […] Breaks: apt (< 0.7.7), aptitude (< 0.4.7-1), dpkg-dev (< 1.15.8), libdpkg-perl (< 1.15.8), pinfo (< 0.6.9-3.1), tkinfo (< 2.8-3.1) … it occurred to me … Continue reading →

About 26-28 hours ago in #debian-release on IRC: <nthykier> damn, a britney run in 5 minutes <adsb> they happen <adsb> you’ve been spoilt by never seeing b1 at her “finest” *cough* <aba> you mean, running for more than a day? … Continue reading →

Lately, I have been working more on release stuff. It all started when Julien convinced me to do the gpsd transition. It was a small, simple transition though I had to bounce obdgpslogger from testing (#648495). After that I picked … Continue reading →

If you have been following Lintian’s development closely, you will probably have noticed that I have not really done anything there for the past week. Instead I have turned my focus on our testing migration script, britney2. First, I have … Continue reading →