Preparations are underway for an update to stable, Debian version 2.2r3. As in most minor revisions, packages with security problems, copyright issues, or very bad bugs are candidates to be updated in this release. It may also include updates to make it compatible with the 2.4 kernel, since all the necessary packages are already backported . Martin Schulze is coordinating the new release , and his list of packages that will get in is available on the web . DPL elections are under way, after a few false starts.
Developers can pick up a ballot and mail it in, gpg-signed.
Voting ends on the 28th. Another bug squashing party is planned for this weekend . Nearly 350 release critical bugs remain after the last party, and they all need to be fixed before woody is released, so anyone with spare time this weekend is encouraged to lend a hand and fix a bug or two. Some weeks, unending security fixes pour into Debian. This was such a week.