Hi Paul,
I used the release notes to upgrade a bookworm system to a trixie system. I like the new layout of the release notes, thanks for the layout upgrade :-)
Overall it went very well, for the only real issue I run into, I filed a bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1102994
I am not a Debian developer, therefore I cannot create a pull request for fixes
in the release notes myself, for the two minor issues I found:
At least some versions mentioned on
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/whats-new.en.html
are not updated, e.g. for Plasma, Libreoffice and gnucash (I guess applies for the others as well). The table seems to be at least partially updated (e.g. gimp).
I think, this section does not apply anymore if upgrading from bookworm
https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#the-non-free-and-non-free-firmware-components
Thanks for preparing an outstanding trixie release, I like it a lot :-)
Rainer
Am Samstag, 29. März 2025, 09:13:25 CEST schrieb Paul Gevers:
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/
--
Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/
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