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Bullseye freeze

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 14th of January 2021 09:12:56 PM Filed under
Debian

Bullseye is freezing! Yay! (And Trondheim is now below -10.)

It's too late for that kind of change now, but it would have been nice if plocate could have been default for bullseye...

It seems that since buster, there's an override in place to change its priority away from standard, and I haven't been able to find anyone who could tell me why. (It was known that it was request moved away from standard for cloud images, which makes a lot of sense, but not for desktop/server images.)

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Debian 11 Freeze Begins

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 14th of January 2021 09:15:55 PM.
  • Debian 11 Freeze Begins, Debian 12 Might Reduce Focus On i386 Support

    The Debian 11 "Bullseye" build-essential freeze is now in effect with the release team no longer entertaining transition requests. Meanwhile, architecture support for Debian 12 is in early stages of discussion with a possible reduction in i386 support for that follow-on release.

    Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" will see its soft freeze for new packages begin on 12 February, the hard freeze beginning a month later on 12 March, and then the full freeze of Debian 12 to happen at some later point to be determined.

  • bits from the release team: bullseye freeze started and its architectures
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Hi all,

=== bullseye Transition and (build-)essential freeze ===

We're pleased to announce that the freeze for Debian 11 'bullseye' has
begun. On January 12th we stopped accepting transition requests and we
are working to complete the transitions in progress. We ask the
maintainers of packages that are (transitively) part of
(build-)essential to stop uploading those packages [1]. We remind
everybody to stop uploading large or disruptive changes to unstable,
from here on experimental is the place to do that.

Further details of the freeze are available in the freeze policy [2].
The freeze contains 3 more milestones:
* 2021-02-12 - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze
               no new packages, delayed migration
* 2021-03-12 - Milestone 3 - Hard Freeze - key packages and packages
               without autopkgtests need a manual unblock for migration
* TBA        - Milestone 4 - Full Freeze
               all packages need a manual unblock for migration

=== RC bugs ===

We are missing the Bug Squashing parties. We have the impression that in
the current list of Release Critical bugs for bullseye [3] there are
quite a few bugs that are relatively easy to fix by NMU and we normally
don't see them this late in the cycle. Please everybody, we know the
times are different, but with your help, we can keep this freeze short.

=== bullseye architectures ===

We have decided that the architectures that will be part of the bullseye
release are: amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el
and s390x (i.e. the same we had for buster minus mips).

There are some issues with a couple of the architectures, the number of
porters being the main one. However, we realized that the call for
porters was late and makes more sense at the start of the release cycle,
instead of near the end. We intend to do the bookworm call soon after we
release bullseye and architectures with too few porters will be dropped
early (after sufficient warnings).

One of the architectures at stake is i386, which we stopped waiving.
We're interested in the discussion about i386 support in Debian that
was going on recently and that will probably continue in one form or
another. If the outcome requires changes to how we build some ports, the
start of the bookworm release cycle is a good moment to try to get those
in place.

We're also interested in the proposal [4] to make it less troublesome
for architectures to move between Release Architecture and Debian Ports,
albeit we see that this mainly doesn't depend on us.

=== your packages ===

Please take this opportunity to check packages are in their final shape
and stay vigilant for release-critical bugs.

On behalf of the Release Team,
Paul

[1]
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/essential-and-build-essential.txt
[2] https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html
[3] https://udd.debian.org/dev/bugs.cgi
[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/11/msg00381.html

Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 15th of January 2021 06:36:10 AM.
  • Debian 'Bullseye' enters final phase before release as team debates whether it will be last to work on i386 architecture

    Gevers also noted that support for the i386 architecture is no longer being waived. If a decision is made to drop it, he said, the start of the Bookworm cycle is a good moment to deal with any issues. "We're interested in the discussion about i386 support in Debian that was going on recently," he said.

    The discussion was kicked off by Debian contributor Andrew Cater, who questioned the future of i386. "There seems to be only one maintainer," he said. "No one has real UEFI hardware for i386 and it's becoming harder and harder to justify spending too much time on testing of the images as fewer and fewer machines can benefit from them."

    Although new PCs all support 64-bit architecture, 32-bit applications are common, and there are also embedded use cases. Many older PCs also remain in service. "i386 hardware is so numerous and widely spread that [the] tiny fraction of i386 users might be more users than half of our release architectures combined," claimed one comment to the thread.

    Studying data from a Debian telemetry package called Popularity Contest confirmed this. "There are an order of magnitude more people with i386 kernels (and thus presumably i386 hardware) than there are for every other non-amd64 release architecture combined. Further, there are more people with old i386 hardware than there are for any other arch," said another developer.

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