Debian news

Steve Langasek covers the X11R7, AKA Xorg 7.0, transition in unstable. "While the XSF are busily working through the bugs that are properly their own, I'll take a moment to let the rest of you know what the implications are for other packages, now that things have settled somewhat and we have a clear idea of where things stand and where they're going."

Anthony Towns covers the status of the AMD64 port in etch. "The amd64 architecture has been added to etch, and over the next few weeks (particularly as the X.org changes get worked out) should become fairly complete. amd64 in etch should be debootstrapable at this point, and usable in some situations, but is obviously pretty limited while it doesn't have X. Hopefully this will improve pretty rapidly."

It's Bug-Squashing Party time. "For long-lasting delight, we will be squashing bugs from Thursday (April 20th) to Sunday (April 23rd), in all timezones. Coordination will, as usual, happen through the #debian-bugs channel on irc.debian.org. For real interaction, if you are attending FISL, look for us at the Debian booth; it should not be hard to find. Make sure you stop by for an hour at least, and feel free to spend your whole weekend working with us, as there are lots of things you can have fun with. If you are not a Debian Developer, do not be afraid; there is much you can do to help, such as triaging bugs and writing or testing patches that fix problems so a developer can prepare a maintainer or non-maintainer upload."

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