------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian 6.0 "Squeeze": Call for Upgrade and Installation tests press@debian.org November 16th, 2010 http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101116b ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian 6.0 "Squeeze": Call for Upgrade and Installation tests The Debian project is proud to announce, that its upcoming release Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" has entered the final phase of its development cycle and is nearly in its final form. We now seek the help of our users to find the remaining bugs related to upgrades from the previous stable release as well as bugs related to the installation of fresh systems. If you plan to install a fresh Debian system in the near future, please consider installing Debian "Squeeze" with the debian-installer available at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ [1]. There is also a list of known errata [2] available, as well as a detailed installation manual [3]. As usual problems should be reported as an installation report [4]. 1: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 2: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 3: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual 4: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s04.html#submit-bug Upgrade tests from Debian 5.0 "Lenny" to the current Debian testing branch are also welcome. Please see the current release notes [5] about known problems and their workarounds. Please take special care about chapter "Recording the session" [6], which explains how you can log the output of the various commands during the upgrade process, in case you encounter a problem and would like to report it. If you encounter any problems, please report it as a bug against the upgrade-reports package. 5: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes 6: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#record-session More experiences user can help by triaging bugs for virtual upgrade-reports [7] and installlation-reports [8] packages or by propose texts for problems, which should be documented in the release-notes [9]. 7: http://bugs.debian.org/upgrade-reports 8: http://bugs.debian.org/installation-reports 9: http://bugs.debian.org/release-notes About Debian ------------ The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free, community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Over three thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into over 30 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the "universal operating system". Contact Information ------------------- For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to <press@debconf.org>
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