What is the frozen state in Debian?

Asked by Beastlicker (145

) January 11th, 2011

Would anyone who knows of it please expand? I know it deals with the testing branch, and only happens when a new stable release is planned to be launched soon, but what exactly happens when it goes into a “frozen” state?

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November 27, 2010, from the looks of it.

http://www.debian.org/

bkcunningham (18496

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Can you expand a bit on your question.
A frozen state of software is what what would be considered the pre-release code. It would be the code for the GA release. They freeze the code for prior to GA release.
QA can impact the bits, but usually that is what goes into the first hotfixes or Service packs.
Here is a link to software release life cycle

Hope this helps

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A “release freeze” is the point in time after which changes in upstream code will not be merged into the distribution release, with certain exceptions like bugfixes and security updates.
After the freeze, the distribution’s packages are in the “frozen” state.

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