Unofficial Release Related Info and Links
Read https://www.debian.org/devel/testing first.
Read the Release Updates
See the release team site https://release.debian.org/
RC Bugs and blockers
Filter more updated RC bug list using: https://udd.debian.org/bugs/
Severity definition: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
Daily report with all sources and their RC bugs and other information: https://people.debian.org/~eriberto/udd/help_a_package.html
Canonical RC bug lists: release-critical
ftp.debian.org bugs (see packages needing removal): ftp.debian.org
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Misc
Responsibilities of ftp masters (e.g. https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/02/msg00184.html ).
debian-release@d.o officially archived on the web at https://lists.debian.org/debian-release (perhaps searchable keywords to https://www.google.com/search?q=%22debian-release%22+site%3Alists.debian.org )
See ?ReleaseProposals for proposed/proposing changes to the release process.
buildd status: https://buildd.debian.org/stats
Package hasn't been uploaded for one or more architectures,
https://www.debian.org/devel/testing under "My package is stalled because it's out of date on some architecture. What do I do?"
Check the buildd logs ( https://buildd.debian.org ) for failures and queue status (see https://www.debian.org/devel/buildd/ ).
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-porting
- It's better to have a buildd build a package to make sure that one can be used to do any future security builds.
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