And that's it for another release. A few bugs but nothing show-stopping.
Thanks again to Sledge, RattusRattus and Isy, to Linux-Fan and schweer.
As the testing page notes, there's a bug in some arm64 installs - the fix should come out via debian-security shortly but you might want to be aware of this.
Here's to the next one: only a short time until Bullseye
Linux-Fan and Schweer have just left us: Schweer has confirmed that all the Debian-Edu images are fine and working to his satisfaction.
After a short break for food, we're all back in on testing: the Cambridge folks are working hard. There have been questions on IRC about the release in Libera.Chat as well. Always good to do this: at some point in the next couple of months, we'll be doing this for Debian 11 [Bullseye] :)
Thanks as ever to all behind the scenes making each point release happen and to those folks supporting LTS and ELTS. It takes a huge amount of bug fixing, sometimes on the fly as issues are discovered, to make it work this seamlessly.
This came up in an install that I was just doing for Debian 10.10 media testing.
I hadn't seen this before and it would be disconcerting to other people, though it is a known bug, I think.
I was installing an image that had no network and no firmware. KDE failed to run and dropped me to a text mode prompt. This was because the Zotac SBC I'm using requires Radeon R600 firmware to work. There was a warning message on screen to that effect.
The way round this was to plug in a network cable and edit /etc/apt/sources.list.
Editing /etc/apt/sources.list was to add contrib and non-free to the appropriate lines to allow me to install firmware-linux-nonfree and firmware-misc-nonfree which includes the appropriate AMD firmware for the embedded Radeon chipset.
Since the machine hadn't been connected to a network at install time, I also needed to run a dhclient command to obtain a network lease and allow me to install the non-free metapackages over the network.
Result: success: a full KDE desktop. [The machine is an old Zotac SBC with embedded graphics hardware: AMD E350 - specifically, it requires firmware-amd-graphics and amd64-microcode].
Late blogging on this one.
Even as we wait for the final release of Bullseye [Debian 11], we're still producing updates for Debian 10 [Buster].
Today has thrown up a few problems: working with Steve, RattusRattus and Isy in Cambridge, Schweer and Linux-Fan somewhere else in the world.
A couple of build problems have meant that we've started later than we otherwise might have been and a couple of image runs have had to be redone. We're there now and happily running tests.
As ever, it's good to be doing this. With practice, I can now repeat mistakes with 100% reliability and in shorter time :)
More updates later.
