Debian Stretch freeze
A release-critical bug kept gstreamer 0.10 out of Debian 9. The freeze rule actually excluded the package. A process can have a stop that bites.
What. Debian’s Stretch release kept a package out because of a named release-critical bug, documented in the public bug and release notes.
Why. Contrast with green-but-no-stop trees: here the freeze rule did exclude the software. Still an institutional analogue, not an AI deployment halt.
Witnesses.
- Experiment methodology (Expectation 4): contrast case where a freeze rule actually excluded the package.
Host.
Debian Bug Tracking System and the Debian 9.0 (Stretch) release.
Setup.
Frozen tree h5-debian-rc-v1.json, protocol h5-v1.0.0.
Analysis.
Release-critical bug #802812 (severity serious) was filed to keep gstreamer 0.10 out of testing/Stretch. Ignoring that leaf would leave “package exists / used to ship” as if it licensed the release. Freeze policy is the handle.
Finding.
RC #802812 kept gstreamer 0.10 out of Debian Stretch. The freeze rule bit. Institutional analogue. Full results