Hi all,I am proud to announce a new mailing list for Debian on Apple Silicon, debian-arm-apple@lists.debian.org, has been created. From now on we will move all discussion there, feel free to subscribe if you're interested!
During the last few weeks we had time to test our asahi installer images and, after fixing a few bugs, everything's looking quite good. So we are moving ahead to provide trixie images in the asahi installer (`curl https://bananas-archive.debian.net/install | sh`, follow the instructions! We will provide actual docs soon). Of course, at this time trixie and testing are practically the same, but by using the trixie images users who want to stick to trixie after August 9 will be able to do so without changing their apt configuration.
Testers who installed Debian testing and want to switch to trixie right now should
- change the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bananas.sources to that of [1] ('unstable-bananas' -> 'trixie-bananas') - change the content of /etc/apt/preferences.d/bananas.pref to that of [2] ('a=unstable-bananas' -> 'n=trixie-bananas', note the 'n' in place of the 'a' in the latter) - as you'd expect, change 'testing' to 'trixie' in the ordinary Debian sources and, preferably, add the 'trixie-security' suite to the sources
You are advised to do this before trixie is released to avoid package downgrades when testing != trixie, of course.
In other news, work on a proper debian-installer has started, and things are looking quite good there too. We have a working proof of concept (forked packages at [3]) which we used to install Debian on M1 and M2 minis a handful of times. I don't expect we'll be able to release it in the near future though: while the asahi installer we are distributing is battle-tested with thousands of (mostly but not only Fedora) installations, actual development on this debian-installer has only started a couple of weeks ago. Initial data suggests the PoC is safe to use, but at this time we simply don't know. Anyone interested in contributing is very welcome to reach out on #debian-bananas.
To end this email I would like to thank all testers who showed up on #debian-bananas offering to help. As I've already said in private, your efforts were very much appreciated and made a real difference!
Cheers![1] https://bananas-archive.debian.net/bananas-archive/bananas-trixie.sources
[2] https://bananas-archive.debian.net/bananas-archive/bananas-trixie.pref [3] https://salsa.debian.org/bananas-team/wip/d-i/
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