Re: New mailing list, Trixie, debian-installer
On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM NoisyCoil <noisycoil@disroot.org> wrote:
>
> 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!
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