Bits from the Release Team: Debian 10 'buster' freeze has begun

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Subject: Bits from the Release Team: Debian 10 'buster' freeze has begun

From: Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:31:43 +0000

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Hi, We're pleased to announce that the freeze for Debian 10 'buster' has begun. On January 12th we stopped accepting transition requests and we are working to complete the remaining transitions in progress. This also means that autopkgtest regressions have now become migration blockers. Other stages of the release are on target. They are: 2019-02-12 Soft freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, 10 day migration) 2019-03-12 Full freeze Further details of what changes are appropriate during the freeze are available in the freeze policy [1]. Upcoming bug squashing parties have been announced already in Austin, Berlin, Cambridge and many others. For details of a BSP near you, please see the Debian Wiki [2]. Please take this opportunity to check packages are in their final shape and stay vigilant for release-critical bugs. 1: https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html 2: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/ For the release team: -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51