:B~ Procedures

1~procedures Procedures

This chapter documents the procedures within the ${project} for various tasks that need cooperation with other teams in Debian.

2~ Major Releases

Releasing a new stable major version of Debian includes a lot of different teams working together to make it happen. At some point, the Live team comes in and builds live system images. The requirements to do this are:

_* A mirror containing the released versions for the debian and debian-security archives which the debian-live buildd can access.

_* The names of the image need to be known (e.g. debian-live-VERSION-ARCH-FLAVOUR.iso).

_* The data from debian-cd needs to be synced (udeb exclude lists).

_* Images are built and mirrored on cdimage.debian.org.

2~ Point Releases

_* Again, we need updated mirrors of debian and debian-security.

_* Images are built and mirrored on cdimage.debian.org.

_* Send announcement mail.

3~ Last Point Release of a Debian Release

Remember to adjust both chroot and binary mirrors when building the last set of
images for a Debian release after it has been moved away from ftp.debian.org to
archive.debian.org. That way, old prebuilt live images are still useful without
user modifications.

3~ Point release announcement template

An announcement mail for point releases can be generated using the template below and the following command:

code{

 $ sed \
     -e 's|@MAJOR@|9.0|g' \
     -e 's|@MINOR@|9.0.1|g' \
     -e 's|@CODENAME@|stretch|g' \
     -e 's|@ANNOUNCE@|2017/msgXXXXX.html|g'

}code

Please check the mail carefully before sending and pass it to others for proof-reading.

code{

 Updated Live @MAJOR@: @MINOR@ released

 The Live Systems Project is pleased to announce the @MINOR@ update of the
 Live images for the stable distribution Debian @MAJOR@ (codename "@CODENAME@").

 The images are available for download at:

   <http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/>

 and later at:

   <http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/>

 This update includes the changes of the Debian @MINOR@ release:

   <https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/@ANNOUNCE@>

 Additionally it includes the following Live-specific changes:

  * [INSERT LIVE-SPECIFIC CHANGE HERE]
  * [INSERT LIVE-SPECIFIC CHANGE HERE]
  * [LARGER ISSUES MAY DESERVE THEIR OWN SECTION]

 About Live Systems
 ------------------
 The Live Systems Project produces the tools used to build official
 live systems and the official live images themselves for Debian.

 About Debian
 ------------
 The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
 volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
 operating system Debian.

 Contact Information
 -------------------
 For further information, please visit the Live Systems web pages at
 <http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/>, or contact the Live Systems team at
 <debian-live@lists.debian.org>.

}code
