Transitions

Workflow

Please request a transition slot from the Release Team by filing a transition bug against release.debian.org (reportbug has a template).

In the transition bug, please include the list of affected source packages and what needs to be done. In some cases, a lot of binNMUs will be enough (i.e. a clean library ABI bump) though in other cases sourceful uploads are required (i.e. API is broken).

Please do not upload the package to unstable without approval from the release team. However, you are more than welcome (and even encouraged) to use experimental.

The release team will (based on your input) setup a transition page for the transition (see http://release.debian.org/transitions/). This page can be used to help tracking the progress of the transition after it starts. It is also common to "block" the transition bug by FTBFS (and other) bugs that is (or could end up) stalling the transitions.

Until the transition finishes, please be prepared to help out fixing outstanding issues with the transition. This includes checking build statuses, finding (bin)NMU or RM candidates.