Re: [PATCH] ci: bump debian-11 job to debian-12
From: Patrick Steinhardt <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-07 06:03:38
On Sat, Sep 05, 2026 at 09:58:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
Debian 11 just recently went out of its LTS period, and is unmaintained by the project (there is "Extended LTS", but it is a paid service provided by a third party). The point of the debian-11 job was to cover older releases in the LTS state, per ac112fd4f0 (Add additional CI jobs to avoid accidental breakage, 2024-10-31). Bumping to debian-12 will cover us there for the next 2 years. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted> --- I started looking at this because I got an apt failure on a debian-11 job today. It might have just been a transient mirror failure (although it reproduced for several minutes afterwards). But this seems like the right step forward anyway.
I noticed that the Debian jobs became flaky lately, too.
I tested the GitHub job, but not the GitLab one. They should be pulling the same docker images, though, so I would expect it to Just Work.
Yeah, same.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml index 205325eb33..a0c3f53c6d 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/main.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml@@ -411,9 +411,9 @@ jobs: # A RHEL 8 compatible distro. Supported until 2029-05-31. - jobname: almalinux-8 image: almalinux:8 - # Supported until 2026-08-31. - - jobname: debian-11 - image: debian:11 + # Supported until 2028-06-30. + - jobname: debian-12 + image: debian:12 env: jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}} CC: ${{matrix.vector.cc}}diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml index 0242283c3c..cd6fd4a504 100644 --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ test:linux: # A RHEL 8 compatible distro. Supported until 2029-05-31. - jobname: almalinux-8 image: almalinux:8 - # Supported until 2026-08-31. - - jobname: debian-11 - image: debian:11 + # Supported until 2028-06-30. + - jobname: debian-12 + image: debian:12 artifacts: paths: - t/failed-test-artifacts
The changes look good, but I wonder whether we want to swap to the "oldstable" tag instead. That points to debian-12, too, and might result in less churn going forward. Patrick