msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-06-28 05:40-0400\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2012-08-08 21:41-0400\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
"The package must have been available in <literal>unstable</literal> for 2, 5 "
"or 10 days, depending on the urgency (high, medium or low). Please note "
"that the urgency is sticky, meaning that the highest urgency uploaded since "
-"the previous <literal>testing</literal> transition is taken into account. "
-"Those delays may be doubled during a freeze, or <literal>testing</literal> "
-"transitions may be switched off altogether;"
+"the previous <literal>testing</literal> transition is taken into account;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2396
+#: pkgs.dbk:2394
msgid ""
"It must not have new release-critical bugs (RC bugs affecting the version "
"available in <literal>unstable</literal>, but not affecting the version in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2403
+#: pkgs.dbk:2401
msgid ""
"It must be available on all architectures on which it has previously been "
"built in <literal>unstable</literal>. <link linkend=\"dak-ls\">dak ls</link> "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2410
+#: pkgs.dbk:2408
msgid ""
"It must not break any dependency of a package which is already available in "
"<literal>testing</literal>;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2416
+#: pkgs.dbk:2414
msgid ""
"The packages on which it depends must either be available in "
"<literal>testing</literal> or they must be accepted into "
"<literal>testing</literal> at the same time (and they will be if they "
-"fulfill all the necessary criteria)."
+"fulfill all the necessary criteria);"
+msgstr ""
+
+#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+#: pkgs.dbk:2422
+msgid ""
+"The phase of the project. I.e. automatic transitions are turned off during "
+"the <emphasis>freeze</emphasis> of the <literal>testing</literal> "
+"distribution."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2424
+#: pkgs.dbk:2428
msgid ""
"To find out whether a package is progressing into <literal>testing</literal> "
"or not, see the <literal>testing</literal> script output on the <ulink "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2435
+#: pkgs.dbk:2439
msgid ""
"The <filename>update_excuses</filename> file does not always give the "
"precise reason why the package is refused; you may have to find it on your "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2442
+#: pkgs.dbk:2446
msgid ""
"Sometimes, some packages never enter <literal>testing</literal> because the "
"set of interrelationship is too complicated and cannot be sorted out by the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2447
+#: pkgs.dbk:2451
msgid ""
"Some further dependency analysis is shown on <ulink "
"url=\"http://release.debian.org/migration/\"></ulink> — but be warned, this "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2452
+#: pkgs.dbk:2456
msgid "Out-of-date"
msgstr ""
#. FIXME: better rename this file than document rampant professionalism?
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2455
+#: pkgs.dbk:2459
msgid ""
"For the <literal>testing</literal> migration script, outdated means: There "
"are different versions in <literal>unstable</literal> for the release "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2463
+#: pkgs.dbk:2467
msgid "Consider this example:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2470 pkgs.dbk:2503
+#: pkgs.dbk:2474 pkgs.dbk:2507
msgid "alpha"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2471 pkgs.dbk:2504
+#: pkgs.dbk:2475 pkgs.dbk:2508
msgid "arm"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2476 pkgs.dbk:2510 pkgs.dbk:2572
+#: pkgs.dbk:2480 pkgs.dbk:2514 pkgs.dbk:2576
msgid "testing"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2477 pkgs.dbk:2482 pkgs.dbk:2511 pkgs.dbk:2512 pkgs.dbk:2519
+#: pkgs.dbk:2481 pkgs.dbk:2486 pkgs.dbk:2515 pkgs.dbk:2516 pkgs.dbk:2523
msgid "1"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2478 pkgs.dbk:2513 pkgs.dbk:2518
+#: pkgs.dbk:2482 pkgs.dbk:2517 pkgs.dbk:2522
msgid "-"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2481 pkgs.dbk:2516 pkgs.dbk:2573
+#: pkgs.dbk:2485 pkgs.dbk:2520 pkgs.dbk:2577
msgid "unstable"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2483 pkgs.dbk:2517
+#: pkgs.dbk:2487 pkgs.dbk:2521
msgid "2"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2489
+#: pkgs.dbk:2493
msgid ""
"The package is out of date on <literal>alpha</literal> in "
"<literal>unstable</literal>, and will not go to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2495
+#: pkgs.dbk:2499
msgid ""
"However, if ftp-master removes a package in <literal>unstable</literal> "
"(here on <literal>arm</literal>):"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><thead><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2505
+#: pkgs.dbk:2509
msgid "hurd-i386"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2525
+#: pkgs.dbk:2529
msgid ""
"In this case, the package is up to date on all release architectures in "
"<literal>unstable</literal> (and the extra <literal>hurd-i386</literal> "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2530
+#: pkgs.dbk:2534
msgid ""
"Sometimes, the question is raised if it is possible to allow packages in "
"that are not yet built on all architectures: No. Just plainly no. (Except "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2537
+#: pkgs.dbk:2541
msgid "Removals from testing"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2539
+#: pkgs.dbk:2543
msgid ""
"Sometimes, a package is removed to allow another package in: This happens "
"only to allow <emphasis>another</emphasis> package to go in if it's ready in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2546
+#: pkgs.dbk:2550
msgid ""
"Of course, there is another reason to remove a package from "
"<literal>testing</literal>: It's just too buggy (and having a single RC-bug "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2551
+#: pkgs.dbk:2555
msgid ""
"Furthermore, if a package has been removed from <literal>unstable</literal>, "
"and no package in <literal>testing</literal> depends on it any more, then it "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2558
+#: pkgs.dbk:2562
msgid "Circular dependencies"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2560
+#: pkgs.dbk:2564
msgid ""
"A situation which is not handled very well by britney is if package "
"<literal>a</literal> depends on the new version of package "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2565
+#: pkgs.dbk:2569
msgid "An example of this is:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2578
+#: pkgs.dbk:2582
msgid "a"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2579
+#: pkgs.dbk:2583
msgid "1; depends: b=1"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2580
+#: pkgs.dbk:2584
msgid "2; depends: b=2"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2583
+#: pkgs.dbk:2587
msgid "b"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2584
+#: pkgs.dbk:2588
msgid "1; depends: a=1"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><informaltable><tgroup><tbody><row><entry>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2585
+#: pkgs.dbk:2589
msgid "2; depends: a=2"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2591
+#: pkgs.dbk:2595
msgid ""
"Neither package <literal>a</literal> nor package <literal>b</literal> is "
"considered for update."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2595
+#: pkgs.dbk:2599
msgid ""
"Currently, this requires some manual hinting from the release team. Please "
"contact them by sending mail to &email-debian-release; if this happens to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2602
+#: pkgs.dbk:2606
msgid "Influence of package in testing"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2604
+#: pkgs.dbk:2608
msgid ""
"Generally, there is nothing that the status of a package in "
"<literal>testing</literal> means for transition of the next version from "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2616
+#: pkgs.dbk:2620
msgid ""
"In summary this means: The only influence that a package being in "
"<literal>testing</literal> has on a new version of the same package is that "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2623
+#: pkgs.dbk:2627
msgid "Details"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2625
+#: pkgs.dbk:2629
msgid "If you are interested in details, this is how britney works:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2628
+#: pkgs.dbk:2632
msgid ""
"The packages are looked at to determine whether they are valid candidates. "
"This gives the update excuses. The most common reasons why a package is not "
"considered are too young, RC-bugginess, and out of date on some arches. For "
-"this part of britney, the release managers have hammers of various sizes to "
-"force britney to consider a package. (Also, the base freeze is coded in "
-"that part of britney.) (There is a similar thing for binary-only updates, "
-"but this is not described here. If you're interested in that, please peruse "
-"the code.)"
+"this part of britney, the release managers have hammers of various sizes, "
+"called hints (see below), to force britney to consider a package."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2637
+#: pkgs.dbk:2639
msgid ""
"Now, the more complex part happens: Britney tries to update "
"<literal>testing</literal> with the valid candidates. For that, britney "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2647
+#: pkgs.dbk:2649
msgid ""
"If you want to see more details, you can look it up on <ulink "
"url=\"http://&ftp-master-host;/testing/update_output/\"></ulink>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2651
+#: pkgs.dbk:2653
msgid ""
"The hints are available via <ulink "
-"url=\"http://&ftp-master-host;/testing/hints/\"></ulink>."
+"url=\"http://&ftp-master-host;/testing/hints/\"></ulink>, where you can find "
+"the <ulink "
+"url=\"http://&ftp-master-host;/testing/hints/README\">description</ulink> as "
+"well. With the hints, the Debian Release team can block or unblock "
+"packages, ease or force packages into <literal>testing</literal>, remove "
+"packages from <literal>testing</literal>, approve uploads to <link "
+"linkend=\"t-p-u\">testing-proposed-updates</link> or override the urgency."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2659
+#: pkgs.dbk:2667
msgid "Direct updates to testing"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2661
+#: pkgs.dbk:2669
msgid ""
"The <literal>testing</literal> distribution is fed with packages from "
"<literal>unstable</literal> according to the rules explained above. "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2668
+#: pkgs.dbk:2676
msgid ""
"Keep in mind that packages uploaded there are not automatically processed, "
"they have to go through the hands of the release manager. So you'd better "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2675
+#: pkgs.dbk:2683
msgid ""
"You should not upload to <literal>testing-proposed-updates</literal> when "
"you can update your packages through <literal>unstable</literal>. If you "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2684
+#: pkgs.dbk:2692
msgid ""
"Version numbers are usually selected by adding the codename of the "
"<literal>testing</literal> distribution and a running number, like "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2691
+#: pkgs.dbk:2699
msgid "Please make sure you didn't miss any of these items in your upload:"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2696
+#: pkgs.dbk:2704
msgid ""
"Make sure that your package really needs to go through "
"<literal>testing-proposed-updates</literal>, and can't go through "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2703
+#: pkgs.dbk:2711
msgid "Make sure that you included only the minimal amount of changes;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2708
+#: pkgs.dbk:2716
msgid "Make sure that you included an appropriate explanation in the changelog;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2713
+#: pkgs.dbk:2721
msgid ""
"Make sure that you've written <literal>testing</literal> or "
"<literal>testing-proposed-updates</literal> into your target distribution;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2719
+#: pkgs.dbk:2727
msgid ""
"Make sure that you've built and tested your package in "
"<literal>testing</literal>, not in <literal>unstable</literal>;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2725
+#: pkgs.dbk:2733
msgid ""
"Make sure that your version number is higher than the version in "
"<literal>testing</literal> and <literal>testing-proposed-updates</literal>, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2732
+#: pkgs.dbk:2740
msgid ""
"After uploading and successful build on all platforms, contact the release "
"team at &email-debian-release; and ask them to approve your upload."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2740
+#: pkgs.dbk:2748
msgid "Frequently asked questions"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2742
+#: pkgs.dbk:2750
msgid "What are release-critical bugs, and how do they get counted?"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2744
+#: pkgs.dbk:2752
msgid ""
"All bugs of some higher severities are by default considered "
"release-critical; currently, these are <literal>critical</literal>, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2749
+#: pkgs.dbk:2757
msgid ""
"Such bugs are presumed to have an impact on the chances that the package "
"will be released with the <literal>stable</literal> release of Debian: in "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2756
+#: pkgs.dbk:2764
msgid ""
"The <literal>unstable</literal> bug count are all release-critical bugs "
"which are marked to apply to "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><title>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2764
+#: pkgs.dbk:2772
msgid ""
"How could installing a package into <literal>testing</literal> possibly "
"break other packages?"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2767
+#: pkgs.dbk:2775
msgid ""
"The structure of the distribution archives is such that they can only "
"contain one version of a package; a package is defined by its name. So when "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2775
+#: pkgs.dbk:2783
msgid ""
"However, the old version may have provided a binary package with an old "
"soname of a library, such as <literal>libacme-foo0</literal>. Removing the "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2781
+#: pkgs.dbk:2789
msgid ""
"Evidently, this mainly affects packages which provide changing sets of "
"binary packages in different versions (in turn, mainly libraries). However, "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2787
+#: pkgs.dbk:2795
msgid ""
"When the set of binary packages provided by a source package change in this "
"way, all the packages that depended on the old binaries will have to be "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <chapter><section><section><section><para>
-#: pkgs.dbk:2798
+#: pkgs.dbk:2806
msgid ""
"If you are having problems with complicated groups of packages like this, "
"contact &email-debian-devel; or &email-debian-release; for help."
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