P-SeriesOpening

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 1. Toolchain updates (minor, update to the binutils 2.22 branch and the GCC 4.6 branch, Linaro update). (set, foundations team)  1. Toolchain updates (minor, update to the binutils 2.22 branch and the GCC 4.6 branch, Linaro update). (set, doko, ubuntu-toolchain-r PPA)
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 1. autotools updates (set, foundations team).  1. autotools updates (set, just libtool, Matthias Klose).
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 1. Merge dpkg, keep the compiler flags in the environment for the P-series. (proposed)  1. Merge dpkg, keep the compiler flags in the environment for the P-series. (set, Colin Watson)
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 1. Bump swig from version 1.3 to version 2.0 (available in Debian unstable). (proposed)  1. Drop python2.6 as a supported python version (set, Matthias Klose).

 1. Bump swig from version 1.3 to version 2.0 (available in Debian unstable). (set, Matthias Klose)

 1. Merge cdbs (set, Martin Pitt; in precise)
 1. Merge debhelper (set, Martin Pitt; in precise)
 1. jpeg8/jpeg62. Start with libjpeg-dev provided by jpeg8 (set, Matthias Klose).
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 1. jpeg8. Start with libjpeg-dev provided by jpeg8 (proposed).
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 1. Don't sync libraries from unstable which are just converted to multiarch; these conversions may cause build breakage, which is not yet fixed in unstable.

List of uploads which should (and should not) happen at the start of the P-Series release cycle. This is in addition to the opening process for a new release as described in NewReleaseCycleProcess.

Contents

  1. Packages to upload
  2. Library packages to upload
  3. Things to avoid
  4. Library updates to avoid

Packages to upload

  1. Toolchain updates (minor, update to the binutils 2.22 branch and the GCC 4.6 branch, Linaro update). (set, doko, ubuntu-toolchain-r PPA)
  2. autotools updates (set, just libtool, Matthias Klose).
  3. Update linux-libc-dev (set, kernel team)
  4. Merge dpkg, keep the compiler flags in the environment for the P-series. (set, Colin Watson)
  5. Drop python2.6 as a supported python version (set, Matthias Klose).
  6. Bump swig from version 1.3 to version 2.0 (available in Debian unstable). (set, Matthias Klose)
  7. Merge cdbs (set, Martin Pitt; in precise)
  8. Merge debhelper (set, Martin Pitt; in precise)
  9. jpeg8/jpeg62. Start with libjpeg-dev provided by jpeg8 (set, Matthias Klose).

Library packages to upload

Things to avoid

  1. perl-5.14 (not yet in Debian). (proposed).

Library updates to avoid

  1. Don't sync libraries from unstable which are just converted to multiarch; these conversions may cause build breakage, which is not yet fixed in unstable.
  2. don't bump boost beyond 1.46.x

P-SeriesOpening (last edited 2011-10-14 08:23:41 by pitti)