Today Lenny was finally released. According to this page with roughly 120 open release critical bugs. That’s quite a big number according to our standards, but still a good and necessary compromise. Thanks for everyone involved, good work everyone!
I’m very happy that the release didn’t take quite as long as I predicted. Three or four more months of Sid being frozen would probably have meant more people playing with semi-supported mixtures of unstable and experimental packages and more migration towards other distributions with more current software packages. So I’m very happy to see over a hundred new packages uploaded to unstable already and roughly 700 new release critical bugs opened 
Bastian, if you’d bothered to check, you would have seen that those RC bugs are already closed and it appears to only be a tagging issue – the bug numbers alone indicate that these are not new bugs as you claim. Why not try to fix stuff instead of sniping about them?
http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=any&sortby=packages&ignmerged=on&igncontrib=on&ignnonfree=on&new=7&refresh=1800
Only 125.