Planned release of stretch on 2017-06-17 and the last weeks up to the release

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Subject: Planned release of stretch on 2017-06-17 and the last weeks up to the release

From: niels@thykier.net

Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 23:18:24 +0200

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Release date ============ We plan to release on 2017-06-17. If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian release party, or hosting your own! See https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyStretch for more information. The final weeks up to the release ================================= On 2017-06-03 at the latest, we will tag all remaining RC bugs with either stretch-ignore OR stretch-will-remove. Packages that have RC bugs tagged with stretch-will-remove will be removed the weekend before the release unless they have been fixed in testing prior to that. Please note that the automatic removals are still in effect and may remove packages before that deadline. In the last week prior to the freeze, testing will be completely frozen and only emergency bug fixes will be considered in this period. Please consider Friday the 2017-06-09 at 13:00 UTC the absolute last moment for changes to stretch. Changes that are not in testing at that time will not be included in stretch for the initial release. However, you can still fix bugs in stretch via point releases if the changeset follows the rules for updates in stable. In summary: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv * Deadline: > 2017-06-09 13:00 UTC < ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Your changes must have migrated to stretch *before* then - Upload several days *before* the deadline * If a change is late, it may still be applicable for an update via a point release after stretch has been released. * Check [List of stretch-will-remove bugs] for packages that will be removed. - Some bugs have been tagged already - Packages may be removed before then (e.g. by auto-removals) Future updates to stretch up to the freeze =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- As we are entering the final part of the freeze, please keep future changes and unblock requests limited to: * RC bugs * Patches for crashes/memory leaks/etc. * Security bug fixes * Regressions compared to jessie * jessie to stretch upgrade issues * Documentation fixes + translation updates (preferably bundled with a fix for at least one of the problems listed above and nothing else) We will only accept targeted fixes. Requests including other changes will not be accepted. For the Release Team, Niels [List of stretch-will-remove bugs]: https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=stretch&merged=ign&rtstretch-will-remove=only&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&rc=1&chints=1&cdeferred=1&crttags=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&format=html#results -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEsxMaRR2/33ygW0GXBUu7n32AZEIFAlkombwACgkQBUu7n32A ZEIPCg/9FIicEyxQOK5cWhpjyWicuNBE8KJn3D9ZJagUXdYOyKR3vSC29v3cpKR6 DX2FbD/+EwMeNe6q+8TNXcgTkDCI0odSrqkfQFWSm39Ph7c1r7xDVMXptzu3FZur hZjtZCL6arKydxU1LhyEvBxrHRgaLIqKpljD/Pxaor6uWwlx1AkZawWuZmN4tf3A D6PYLK6U0db1J8/jSRfFtV0nS2etm7wX40PCUiY0UN8n2Fm9hjxK5ORCPaJbKblN c8BxRqwwpx4Ce+7MTLSCJqLDZLpjddr9zo9Owm/gPLkDHVDQF8a/LQ/eUxqbNDJP 2EtgZAdvkMrBgI32XftJuU2HNBAwTWFP47jjOk3Ppibot2C6DQQdE+QWuEhiDJZW cTvv/s+zCG4BqsYKvVV6J8Kx6GnG/lkLRC7h+2HGtUpTRSioEYaGNtFXdLxe6c+G mSTv5vY7cBR8hIHdavg8BRYABLlkjFVLUhxFl0dnBArNnhgSLcTgn8Ahuf+DekHq O6Q7katyzMaGlydtgTS7qTfIA++4pDGVt8dVTGsR3LfJj6X/Xs29F17orGq7BLe2 KDQZdz1JJPGzkx6+mL938OqozDoCgVeVQc05QHmHVnEy714KLVR/I2XUgSUnejPI vUdfmwYHHhcMEY6B9QBcIRVKjXGEXUgm0gmIsjiKvs+rM5GQJ+8= =1Pos -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----