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Subject: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl -- About the number of rc bugs
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:11:59 +0200 (CEST)

http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-lenny-2

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl -- About the number of rc bugs

In addition to my last post, here some information about the
current number of release critical bugs.

Yes, it is true, that our official bug tracker[1] lists the next
release has still 264 bugs1. And some wonder, when Lenny> will be
released[2].

It's a little bit difficult to work with that page, let's look at
the unofficial rc bug thingy I already mentioned in my previous
post. As you might have noticed it[3] supports several filters
mechanism the official bts don't have. At the very bottom of the
detailed list you'll see the overall number of the bugs matching
your selected filter. So let's have a look at the number of bugs,
which are already fixed in the unstable branch and need to
propagate to Lenny. Currently that are 118 RC bugs.

Of those 264 preventing us to release, 118 are already fixed; the
fix just hasn't arrived in Lenny, yet.

Okay, but there are still 147 rc Bugs open in both Lenny and Sid.
So let's take a look at them. By using the filters at the top, you
can calculate, that 19 already have a patch. 14 are marked pending
(so they are already fixed, but the maintainer hasn't uploaded the
package yet). 15 of these bugs have been reported multiple times
and have been merged. Oh, and 3 are about packages in non-free and
contrib.

Granted, for some of them, there is a patch, but the patch needs
to be tested, or the bug has been marked pending by mistake. But
still: If you ignore all these types of bugs, there are only 104
bugs left. one-hundred-and-four!

Summary: So the only thing left (beside the points I mention in my
previous post) to do, is to migrate 118 fixes to Lenny somehow,
get the 33 fixes for the probably fixed bugs uploaded, and fix the
remaining 104 bugs.

Yes, that's still a lot of work to do... So let's get things
rolling, shall we?

1: You might further notice, that the current stable release is
affected by more than 700 bugs. However many of them are false
counts, e.g. when a specific package doesn't build with a newer
version of a compiler. The package in the current stable release
is of course affected, so there it is kind of buggy. However, we
can ignore these kind of bugs, since the newer version of the
compiler isn't shipped in the current stable release at all. Those
bugs should be tagged etch-ignore...

03:04pm[4] by Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (alexander[bei]schmehl[punkt]info)

Links:
1. http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
2. http://blog.venthur.de/2008/10/07/lennys-release-date/
3. http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php
4. http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/releasing-lenny-2

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