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Release-Critical Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny

Tuesday, October 14 2008 @ 04:53 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde

Debian Lenny was originally scheduled for release in September. Now that we're well into October, Debian developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl admits that plan was "too optimistic." Although there are still over 200 release-critical bugs still waiting to be patched, if the Debian community is willing to step up, Lenny can see the light of day sooner rather than later.

Reichle-Schmehl says in order to get Lenny out the door, the project needs people willing to "Fix rc-bugs, take care, that the fixed packages are migrated to 'Lenny', do upgrade tests, [and] document problems in the release-notes."
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