Notices by Debian (debian@fosstodon.org), page 8

Debian 10 buster has 28,939 source packages with 11,610,055 source files. See more stats (languages, other) at https://sources.debian.org/stats/buster/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

There have been about 31 different official and unofficial ports to various kernels and hardware types https://www.debian.org/ports/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Debian buster is the first release with a debian-policy mandating 'packages should be reproducible' (since policy 4.1.0) #ReleasingDebianBuster

Meanwhile the tests are ongoing, the Debian website is being prepared to offer all the info about Debian buster released as stable #releasingDebianBuster

All the installation images are now complete. Testing of live images is still ongoing and will take a while longer - help is always welcome in #debian-cd on irc.debian.org! #releasingDebianBuster

Images for the final two architectures are now arriving and s390x has been sent for testing #releasingDebianBuster

mipsel and mips64el images are now available for testing

At least 1330 people and 9 teams contributed to Debian until 2019 https://contributors.debian.org/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Images for the mips and ppc64el architectures are ready for testing - volunteers welcome if you have the right hardware! Co-ordination takes place in #debian-cd on irc.debian.org and at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting/Buster_r0 #releasingDebianBuster

Be sure to check out the upgrading chapter of the Debian 10 buster release notes for your device, e.g. for 64-bits PC: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading #releasingDebianBuster

Testing Debian 10 buster CD in teams is always more enjoyable ! http://www.jwiltshire.org.uk/2019/07/06/testing-in-teams/ #ReleasingDebianBuster

Debian CD testing extends to the live images too - they have just been sent for an extensive set of tests by our volunteer testers #releasingDebianBuster

armel images are ready for testing #releasingDebianBuster

CD images are about 50% built, with testing continuing at furious rate #releasingDebianBuster

During the buster release cycle over 1,400 manual hints were issued by the Release Team to the migration scripts to shape the release #releasingDebianBuster https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/

armhf images are ready for testing #releasingDebianBuster

What's happening behind the scenes? "What to expect on buster release day" by Jonathan Wiltshire http://www.jwiltshire.org.uk/2019/07/06/what-to-expect-on-buster-release-day/ #releasingDebianBuster

arm64 images are now being tested #releasingDebianBuster

The netinst multi-arch CD images have also now been sent for testing #ReleasingDebianBuster

The first i386 CD images have also now been sent for testing #releasingDebianBuster