On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:06:16AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. > > I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is > shortly to come. > > As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka > bookworm), still gets a lot of changed packages last days. > > Obviously I seem to misunderstand the meaning of "freeze". > > Does "freeze" mean "No new packages" od does it mean "actual packages in > testing will not be changed any more till next release". > > What did I not understand? For me "freeze" means "stay at actual status and > do > only necessary changes for security or breaking reasons".
Freeze has its phases (which makes sense, you slowly move "from inside out" -- a change in a basic package might "ripple out" to its dependencies. See [1] for the full story. Cheers [1] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html -- t
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