Squeeze has been frozen for some time now, and hopefully will be released by the end of the year, and today the Debian team has revealed the name of the next Debian release 7.0: Wheezy.
Freeze status
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Squeeze has been frozen for some time now, and the previously mentioned
relaxed attitude towards new releases will be hardened. Additionally, to
continue our release efforts, exceptions for packages that were waiting
in the NEW queue/uploaded shortly before the freeze are dropped.
From now on, only the following rules apply:
A new version may only contain changes falling in one of the
following categories (compared to the version in testing):
– fixes for release critical bugs (i.e., bugs of severity critical,
grave, and serious) in all packages;
– changes for release goals, if they are not invasive;
– fixes for severity: important bugs in packages of priority: optional
or extra, only when this can be done via unstable;
– translation updates
– documentation fixes
Please upload packages fitting this description to unstable, then
request the freeze exception by filing a bug against
release.debian.org. You don’t need to include the full diff (which we
re-generate from the uploaded packages anyway), but please include the
relevant changelog entries.
For further information on freeze exceptions, refer to our freeze
announcement [RM:FA], but note that the rules are a bit stricter now.
Transitions
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Finished: icu, gnustep, petsc, libmodplug, mpfr, nifticlib, apt, xapian
Ongoing: ace, opencv
Planned: mono
Release critical bugs, Removals, BSPs
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The release team is, as always, concerned about the number of release
critical bugs affecting testing. We are still optimistic that currently
known issues can be squashed in short time with your help.
Leaf packages with open RC bugs will be removed in the coming weeks.
Use the “rc-alert” script from the devscripts package to identify
removal candidates that you use.
We’re also looking for hosts for real-life and online bug squashing
parties! These have shown to be hugely effective at getting the number
of RC bugs down, and a great way to get developers together to work
towards the release. Volunteers are welcome, please feel free to contact
us.
Release notes
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There is still quite a lot of work to be done on the squeeze release
notes. Coordination for this will happen on the
[email protected] mailing list (further information to appear
in a mail to that list). If you know of any issues that need to be
documented, file them as bugs against the “release-notes” pseudo
package.
While you are pondering noteworthy things, feel free to document
important improvements, newly included packages and similiar things on
the NewInSqueeze page in the Debian Wiki [DW:NIS].
Release name
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We will continue to use Toy Story character names for squeeze’s
successor. The next release will be called “wheezy” (the rubber toy
penguin with a red bow tie), and will be Debian 7.0.
Why does free software have so many pathetic names? Don’t the people who pick these names have any clue at all about the impression the names make in the minds of ordinary people?
Spot quiz: One of the following two names suggests the choice of far-sighted people who understand the big picture, the other suggests an asthmatic wreck near his/her final death throes; which is which? (1) Wheezy, (2) Vista.
Here’s one for you Victor!
Which commenter in this thread appears to be trolling, and worse, doing so based on complete ignorance regarding where Debian release names come from?
And even better, after you’ve googled that you might want to hit up the trivia for the franchise which is the answer to the first question, and you’ll find that Wheezy is especially fantastic because of where that character came from.
People actually run Vista? Let me guess, it’s a step up from using ME on the PII 266 in your mom’s basement?