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Debian bookworm in soft freeze

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 18, 2023

Dear all,

Soft Freeze

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Following our release calendar, we have frozen bookworm a bit

[1]. That means that from this week on we expect all uploads to be

small, targeted fixes and no new source packages are allowed into

bookworm. Source packages must also no longer add or drop binary

packages. All packages will have to age at least 10 days in unstable

before they are eligible for migration (including those having

autopkgtests). Quoting from the policy:

"""

Starting 2023-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for

bookworm. We want maintainers to focus on small, targeted fixes.

[...]

Please note that new transitions, new versions of packages that are

part of (build-)essential or large/disruptive changes remain

inappropriate.

[...]

Packages that are not in testing will not be allowed to migrate to

testing. This applies to new packages as well as to packages that were

removed from testing (either manually or by auto-removals).

[...]

Dropping or adding binary packages to a source package, moving

binaries between source packages or renaming source or binary packages

is no longer allowed. Packages with these changes will not be allowed

to migrate to testing. These changes are also no longer appropriate in

unstable.

Please note that packages that are in bookworm at the start of the

soft freeze can still be removed if they are buggy. This can happen

manually or by the auto-removals. Once packages are removed, they will

not be allowed to come back.

[...]

Don't upload changes to unstable that are not targeted for

bookworm. Having changes in unstable that are not targeted/appropriate

for bookworm could complicate fixes for your package and related

packages (like dependencies and reverse dependencies).

"""

State of bookworm

=================

The state of bookworm is pretty good. We ask everybody to keep working

on fixing the remaining RC bugs (and please find and file those that

are currently unreported). [2] has the list we should drive down to

zero together. Please try out upgrading your bullseye systems to

bookworm now and report issue you encounter.

General

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As always, talk to us, preferably via the bts, if you experience

issues that we need to be aware of or where you need help. Please be

aware it's now a very busy time for us, so bear with us.

Our freeze policy is at [1].

On behalf of the release team,

Paul

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