Sunday, 06 September 2009

Stefano Zacchiroli's post about fixing an RC bug a day got me thinking. In my Google Reader, I already have the feed of new Debian packages (which was incidentally the highlight of Debian Weekly News for me, and now that I found this feed, I miss its now infrequent publications a whole lot less). What I'd really like to compliment this, is a daily feed of new release critical bugs opened or elevated to release critical status. Then, in my copious amounts of spare time, if I got the urge when an appropriate RC bug went by, I might be more inclined to try and do something about it.

Does such a feed already exist somewhere?

I finalised the initial upload of the ISC DHCP 4.1.0 packages a couple of days ago, and it sat in NEW, because I've renamed the source package (no more dhcp3). Today it was ACCEPTed into experimental. (Kudos to the ftp-team for their quick processing of NEW)

It should deal with upgrading from dhcp3-client or dhcp3-server to the newly-named equivalents, at least for the common cases. The rest will come out in the wash (which is why it's in experimental).

Thanks also to AJ for letting me NMU ifupdown twice to sort out some problems with the way it invokes /sbin/dhclient (thinking it's the v2 client) as opposed to /sbin/dhclient3.

I think the criteria for uploading to unstable will be:

• no egregiously bad issues uncovered by testing in experimental
• the LDAP patch for the DHCP server is sorted out
• bugs are filed, where needed, for consumers of the DHCP client to do the right thing (invoke it correctly as /sbin/dhclient instead of /sbin/dhclient3)