Threatened package include apache , fetchmail , gpm , and samba . Already this has led to a significant decrease in the size of the Release Critical bug list as people work to get bugs fixed on time. Perhaps the best example of this work is this project to fix all of openssh's bugs . However, the 28th still bodes to be a very interesting and eventful day. Elections for the next Debian Project Leader have opened , and will close in two weeks.
Developers can grab a ballot and vote.
The team is mostly done with writing an Applicant's Checklist. This should all happen within the next few weeks. David proposed that we revert to an older version of egcs for Alpha, as it seems gcc is at the root of all these problems. To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the debian-news mailing list. Back issues of this newsletter are available.