Topics of interest until bookworm is released (12.0)

Things that we should keep an eye on (not necessarily fixing all of them), with the 12.0 goal in mind.

RC 2

• cryptsetup upstream fighting for the memory cost thing [RC2]
• partman-efi vs. (plain) LVM on UEFI systems (#1033913) [RC2]
• udeb tweaks in src:linux [RC2]
• base-installer vs. zstd (bwh, ema) [RC2]
• disabled os-prober (#1033985) [RC2]
• enable <codename>-updates before stable is released (#991947) [RC2]

RC 3

• kernel hang on ppc64el, linux regression (#1033058) [RC3]
• missing modesetting_drv.so (#1035014)
• hostname=unassigned-hostname (#1035349)
• live vs. LUKS (#1035360) [confirmed in weekly builds]
• kernel size on arm64 (#1035398)
• fun with file descriptors, for firmware license acceptance (#1033921)
• X vs. default driver under QEMU+UEFI (#1036019) — workaround included
• support for powers-of-two units (#913431)
• grub-installer patches (pham)

RC 4

• udeb += staging r8188eu (#1035824) — if src:linux gets uploaded
• “dosfstools for EFI partition”
• installation-guide unblock request
• final l10n uploads

RC 5

• X vs. default driver under QEMU+UEFI (#1036019) — real investigation
• debian-cd: check/refresh firmware sof hardcoded list
• debian-cd vs. firmware: https://bugs.debian.org/1036828
• investigate memory size requirements
• investigate broken pipes in debootstrap, mostly seen with netboot-gtk and encrypted LVM (on 2023-05-25, before RC 4)

Others

• snapshot status (missing dinstalls)
• hw-detect patches for even more firmware support: #1033679 (pham) → post-bookworm
• hw-detect patches for better external storage support: #1029962 (pham) → post-bookworm, but might be backported in some point release
• possible race condition between “firmware install+module modprobe” and NIC checking (#1034801)
• missing RST support (#1035101)
• spaces in filenames, the Raspberry edition (#1029843)
• cros/efi as a subarch
• memory requirements vs. TFTP booting (#1035854): the dwarves update seems to have helped (-20M for mini.iso on amd64 and arm64 after 6.1.27-1 was built against it)

(Thanks to @zeha for the checklist-in-an-issue idea.)