Debian 13 (trixie) freeze schedule released

[Yavor Doganov]

Debian has finally announced the freeze schedule for the forthcoming
stable release [1].  The announcement has been made today (my TZ), and
it's way too late compared to previous releases so likely to put many
upstream developers under pressure.

2025-03-15      - Milestone 1 - Transition and toolchain freeze
2025-04-15      - Milestone 2 - Soft Freeze
2025-05-15      - Milestone 3 - Hard Freeze - for key packages and
                                packages without autopkgtests
To be announced - Milestone 4 - Full Freeze

For the core packages, and for any package providing a library or
framework with a *bumped* SONAME, the important date is the first one,
minus one month.  It means that the new releases should should be made
by mid-February.

I remind you the sad fact that the current Debian release, 12
(bookworm), shipped with outdated GNUstep core libraries because we
missed the deadline for library transitions by just a few days [2].
The previous stable release, 11 (bullseye), also shipped with outdated
GNUstep because I failed to inform the GNUstep developers in time.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/01/msg00004.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1028602