It is half-time for me at DebCamp/DebConf11 in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that is a good time to write about my work so far. I started with some finger exercises, such as the HTML copying for gnome-terminal (as blogged previously) and cosmetic changes to the buildd.debian.org/status website. After that, I began my main project: A SAT-based solver for the testing transition problem. In Debian, new software first enters a repository called unstable, where it is tested. Once some requirements are fulfilled (package has been in unstable for usually at least 10 days and has no new release critical bugs), it is entitled to enter the repository called testing, which will eventually form a new stable Debian release. But some packages need to migrate together, usually because either requires the new version of the other. Also, no packages in testing ought to become uninstallable by some seemingly unrelated change. The software that decides these things is called britney. It is suff
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