There's been an increasing amount of discussion about freezing and release plans this week. Lalo Martins posted about internationalizing Debian's init scripts . It's turning into a more general discussion about init script output, see this proposal for example. Here is a complete system for generating diffs between debian packages and applying those diffs. One thing they're dealing with is translating the copyright of software that is documented only in japanese.
Many packages remain broken after the perl update.
The next planned step is to file important bugs against these packages and quickly make non maintainer releases of them. Thanks to Christian Meder and Katsura S. Yoshio for contributing . To receive this newsletter weekly in your mailbox, subscribe to the debian-news mailing list. Back issues of this newsletter are available. Debian Weekly News is edited by Joey Hess .