Debian 11 Bullseye development work enters the hard freeze phase
The Debian development team announced that Debian 11’Bullseye’ has entered the “Hard Freeze” phase on March 12. At this stage, key packages and packages without autopkgtest will be treated as in the Full Freeze while non-key packages with autopkgtest will be treated as during the Soft Freeze.
The non-critical software packages that support automated testing are still soft-frozen. autopkgtest is the software that runs test suites that are defined by DEP8. Autopkgtests of Debian packages are run on by the debci package on the Debian CI service.
If you need to migrate from Debian unstable to the beta version, critical packages and Debian packages that are missing from Autopkgtest need to be unblocked by the Debian release team. You can see the Bullseye Freeze Timeline and Policy page for details.
After the hard freeze phase, it is the Full Freeze phase, but the date has not yet been determined. Based on the quality situation and other migrations, Debian 11 is expected to be officially released in a few months.
