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.

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== 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)

 1. autotools updates (set, just libtool, Matthias Klose).

 1. Update linux-libc-dev (set, kernel team)

 1. Merge dpkg, keep the compiler flags in the environment for the P-series. (set, Colin Watson)

 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).

== 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.

 1. don't bump boost beyond 1.46.x