Those of us who use unstable to keep up with the latest packages are being impacted by the woody release delay. Because sid filters into woody, packages considered core to woody are not being updated, even in sid, except to fix RC bugs. This will continue until woody is released, which is looking like it could still take quite a while.
This is occuring for XFree86-4.2, and I also know that the OpenLDAP packager is waiting for the freeze to end in order to introduce encryption into those packages. I'm sure the freeze is affecting many other packages as well. Other software development projects us a "branch for release and continue development on the trunk" system to ensure that release delays don't hinder continuing development. Persumably Debian has considered this and decided it does not have the personal or hardware resources for such a system. What we could do, though, is to declare that packages with 0 RC bugs can continue development in unstable, and these packages will not be picked up by testing until after the woody release. Can anyone think of objections to such a policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
