Debian GNU/Linux [LWN.net]

The Debian Weekly News for August 3, 2004 is out. Topics this week include Debian Birthday parties, sarge package removals, OSCON talks, and more.

A long message sent to debian-devel by sarge release manager Steve Langasek gives a timeline for a Debian sarge release on September 15. It also breaks the news that Steve Langasek and Colin Watson are the release managers - it seems that A.J. Towns finally got fed up and stepped down from that position. The base and standard packages have gone into a hard freeze now, with a goal of having zero release-critical bugs (down from just under 300 now) by September 12.

Igor Genibel has announced a new version of the Debian Developer Packages Overview.

Frank Lichtenheld presents Bits from the WNPP with an explanation of the new RFH (Request For Help) tag that has been added to the Work-needing packages report.