Introducing the "Debian's Automated Code Analysis" (DACA) project

The freeze doesn't include experimental (so packages in experimental can still be freely upgraded), but it does include sid. This is because unstable is the staging ground for packages that enters testing.

Using experimental is not very common though (neither among developers nor among users), since it's not a complete distribution (which unstable is), only a partial repository (if it was a complete distribution it wouldn't be possible to cherry pick from experimental, because of dependencies).

The fastest way to ensure that new versions of cppcheck gets integrated in unstable at a timely manner is to help get Debian 6.0 out of the door, so if you feel like you can help fix any of the open RC-bugs, please do.

Of course, playing the Devil's Advocate it's likely that extensive testing of the packages in the archive with cppcheck might actually increase the number of RC bugs, in case it uncovers a lot of severe bugs. But that's flawed reasoning...