Re: Planning for 13.1 and 12.12 onwards

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 24/09/2025 15:34, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Adding debian-lts and backports-team to the loop)
>
> Thanks for planning so early!
>
> ...
> > | 16 May 2026 |  12.14, 13.5 |                 |
> > | 11 Jul 2026 |  13.6        |                 |
> > | 12 Sep 2026 |  12.15, 13.7 | bookworm to LTS |
>
> Bookworm will move under the responsibility of the LTS team on June 11th
> 2026 (See: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/).  To make things
> more clear and easier to remember for everybody, there was an agreement
> since bullseye (IIRC), to have full support during the first three years
> of every release, independently of the next release.
>
> Would it be possible then to have the final bookworm point release at
> the same time than 13.6, so on 11 Jul 2026?

Another option would be to skip 12.14 on May 16, and do it (on its own) on June 
13. That would align things better with LTS. It's less work on May 16 and Sep 12 
(only trixie point releases), but an extra day on June for the final bookworm 
point release.

Cheers,
Emilio