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 From: jmw@debian.org 
  
 Hello, 
  
 Lintian data in britney 
 ----------------------- 
  
 The software that manages package migrations from unstable to testing 
 (britney) can now consume lintian data directly. The results are supplied 
 through UDD and give britney a new way to apply quality checks when 
 deciding whether a package may migrate. 
  
 Lintian runs on the built binary packages, which means these checks can 
 only be performed after a successful build - not as part of a source-only 
 upload to unstable. By making the results available inside britney, we can 
 use them consistently as part of migration policy rather than leaving them 
 only to manual review. 
  
 First LintianPolicy check: /usr-merge 
 ------------------------------------- 
  
 The first check enabled through this new framework focuses on 
 `/usr-merge`. Packages that still install files into aliased locations 
 are now prevented from migrating to testing. 
  
 This builds on the project-wide cleanup completed for trixie and helps 
 ensure the archive remains consistent. Further checks may be added where 
 they support the project's release quality objectives. 
  
 armel removal from forky 
 ------------------------ 
  
 The armel architecture has now been removed from the forky suite. This 
 port supported very old ARM systems without hardware floating-point, 
 such as early plug computers and NAS devices. 
  
 As development effort increasingly focuses on newer ARM hardware (armhf 
 and arm64), armel is no longer part of forky. 
  
 Point release timetable 
 ----------------------- 
  
 Stable point releases for trixie, and the remaining point releases for 
 bookworm, now follow a published timetable rather than being announced 
 one by one. This gives maintainers, derivatives, and users clear dates 
 to plan around. 
  
 The change was announced in the most recent Bits from the Stable Release 
 Managers: 
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00003.html 
  
 The up-to-date timetable will be maintained on the Release Team pages: 
 https://release.debian.org/ 
  
 The dates are provisional and may change if urgent issues arise, but the 
 aim is to provide a predictable schedule wherever possible. 
  
 Release Team iCal feed 
 ---------------------- 
  
 The Release Team maintains an iCalendar feed with key dates, including 
 point releases, freezes, and other milestones. It can be imported into 
 most calendar applications to make it easier to stay up to date: 
  
 https://release.debian.org/release-calendar.ics 
  
 The feed is kept current alongside announcements, so subscribing is a 
 straightforward way to track the release timetable. 
  
  
 For the Release Team: 
 -- 
 Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw@debian.org 
 Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw 
  
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