Yesterday it seemed all of d-i turned to shit.

I guess it was just one of those days, but I started off on solving one problem only to encounter new problem after new problem until I was popped so far down the problem stack that I couldn't find my way back out. So I fixed everything (or everything I could remember) and went out to the farm to be offline for 12 hours.

Anyway, I've been annoyed lately to see us really fall from the levels of stability and release-readyness we hit for RC1. Right now I can't even install Debian on some of my hardware because the must-have bleeding edge kernels we've upgraded to are buggy. (I miss you, Xu.) We're really in danger right now of people losing concentration on the release, because the release is effectively stalled.

I'm also very annoyed to have been tracking some important bug fixes (in aptitude and gnome-session) for over a month now (in one case, more than 2 full months) and still the fixes have not made it into testing. And the desktop task is broken because meta-kde was pulled from testing. So we're not able to get in key fixes or keep a basic installable desktop system in testing, but new features and bugs somehow manage to get in quite well. Not the best combination for maintaining my sanity.

I'm ready to be done with sarge, please.