"In announcing the freeze, Claes outlined a series of high-priority tasks for Debian's 2,000 or so maintainers to focus on. These include:
* Making pre- and post-install scripts safe for those hotrods (ah-hem, Ubuntu people) who point the /bin/sh symlink at dash instead of bash in order to shave a few seconds off of boot-up time
# Updating Architecture status information -- Some eight of Debian's 12 architectures risk not getting included in the launch because no one is posting their status to the Debian Wiki
# Get all packages to pass muster with the piuparts deb package tester/validator
# Make sure packages can be "built twice in a row" (the "double compilation") test
# Tweak init.d scripts to support dependency-based init schemes such as Ubuntu's Upstart"
