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Re: Dropping live image generation and testing for oldstable ?

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* Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@einval.com> [260110 18:00]:
>Apologies for the multiple lists but this needs to be widespread:
>
>Currently testing CD/BD and so on images for the Trixie and Bookworm
>release. The question has come up:
>
>The images team do not consider that it is worthwhile generating live images
>for oldstable and testing live images for oldstable
>with each new point release.
>
>The likelihood of *needing* live images for oldstable is small and the
>amount of testing is large. For the expected use case, does the
>testing effort outweigh the actual expected use?
>
>What do others think?

I might be mistaken, but I think point releases can remove packages, 
like old kernels. That would remove the corresponding sources. And 
then for DFSG reasons, the old live images also need to be stop 
being distributed.

Which might be fine. But that needs to be understood, I'd say.

Chris

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Dropping live image generation and testing for oldstable ? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2026-01-10 18:00 +0100
  Re: Dropping live image generation and testing for oldstable ? Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> - 2026-01-11 00:10 +0100
    Re: Dropping live image generation and testing for oldstable ? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2026-01-12 00:50 +0100
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