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.
So we're a fair way through the release, then. Testing of almost all the standard images has finished. Pretty much all of the disk images are now complete and in place.
People are working their way through the tests of the debian-live images in the various desktop flavours. These have to be done on real hardware - so it does take time. A new tester - peylight - has dropped in to help for the first time. Sqrt{not} has also joined us from the other end of the timezone scale - we have somebody at UTC-0700 and somebody at UTC+0430 today. [I can't remember where Linux-fan is timezone wise] All of the help from all the testers is very welcome, as ever.
A slight pause - a couple of us have a meal to eat - but it looks as if we've done well on timings. The original estimate was for 2000UTC - maybe a little after that and we'll be finished and the images release can be published - there were a couple of minor hiccups but we've done well so far.
Thanks, as always, to the people behind the scenes doing all the work, to DSA and admins providing large machines for us to do the builds on and to the people who drop in and spend a few hours of their time on a working day/weekend to help out.
And so I'm rather late: Sledge, RattusRattus and Isy and I have all been busy chasing down bits and pieces for images release today. We're well underway through the normal images: live images are still ongoing. We've had help from Schweer and Linux-fan as last time - a couple of other folk have had chats to us. So far, it seems relatively straightforward - we're all experienced at this by now.
As ever, it's a joy to be doing this with a smart set of colleagues.
We can now catch our mistakes _just_ after we make them, so it's really getting sorted: the next stage is for me to realise _before_ I make them.
