Debian Installer Status Update - 30th July 2007

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First we'd like to say thank you to Frans Pop by his work as Debian Installer Release Manager and we (Jeremy, Joey and Otavio) are starting to work as a team to manage the next Debian Installer release.

It won't be an easy task and we'll do mistakes, for sure, but we're very commited to get it done.

Bear on mind that we're intending to have a team-like coordination of the Debian Installer release process and that means you're free to collaborate to it. Please report any issue you have experienced and that's not reported here so we can keep the whole installer quality as good as we can.

Just in case you wonder, we hope to make a beta1 release on the end of September. :)

New stuff
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• Transition from devfs style device name is now complete.
• sparc32 is gone, and code has been cleaned up.

Breakage in daily builds

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• arm (ads_cf) had a build-failure due the lack of pcmcia-cs-udeb but it's now addressed and should be ok by tomorrow.
• The installation problem due the missing symbols still exists in some architectures since the conflict between libc-dev and linux-libc-dev (IIUC) isn't resolved yet (#434040).
• mips and mipsel builds are still broken. A possible solution has been identified and we are waiting for actions by the daily build maintainer.
• weekly CD builds for sparc are broken.

Other issues
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• Chinese (and Japanese/Korean) texts issue in slang2 (#425835) is still there.
• Regressions in cleaning old LVM partitions (#425829) unfixed as well.

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Kernel status
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• linux-modules-di-m68k-2.6 isn't uploaded due the lack of loop-aes and squashfs since linux-headers lack modules.lds files (#402061).
• hppa has been switched to 2.6.21 but the kernel is currently affected by #431773, #427398, #433768 - all marked as pending.
• sparc kernel seems to produces unkillable processes (#433187).

Installation Images

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• netinst images are huge due debian-cd inclusion of excluded packages dependencies (#410418).
  • -- Regards,

Debian Installer Release Team
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