Bits from the Release Team: trixie freeze started
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Hi all,
=== trixie Transition and Toolchain freeze ===
We're pleased to announce that the freeze for Debian 13 'trixie' has
begun. On March 15th we stopped accepting transition requests and we are
working to complete the transitions in progress. We ask the maintainers
of packages that are part of the toolchain to stop uploading those
packages [1] without prior approval from us. 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:
* 2025-04-15 - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze
no new packages, delayed migration
* 2025-05-15 - 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 ===
The current list of Release Critical bugs for trixie [3] is
progressively looking better. Thanks to everybody who is helping
out. That said, we're not there yet, ideally the number of RC bugs goes
down to zero. And autoremoval has done it's job, there's a large set of
packages that are currently *not* in trixie, so this is your last chance
to bring them back.
Don't forget to organize your bug squashing parties:
https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/ There's one planned for the end of April.
=== release notes ===
We like to draw your attention to the release notes. We have hardly
received any proposals (or even ideas), don't forget to file things
worth mentioning against the release-notes pseudo package in the bts or
prepare your MR on salsa [4]. The release notes editors will be helping
you to shape the text, so don't be shy and submit those rough ideas
already.
=== testing upgrades ===
If you are in the position to already upgrade some hosts from bookworm
to trixie, we like to hear from you if you run into issues. If you
don't know which package is to blame, please don't be shy and report it
against the upgrade-reports pseudo package and people following that
package will try and help find the right package (help wanted for the
triaging).
=== 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/testing/essential-and-build-essential.txt
[2] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html
[3] https://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/
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