As we are close to full production support of Debian 13 Trixie, I have released a new set of packages to the beta package stream. With the surprising interest for "appliance" features on non-PI devices we are making some changes with the packaging.
Debian 13 Trixie will receive a new set of packages:
asl-appliance - All platform agnostic "appliance" elements and is suitable for all hardware types and all virtual machines. Those who run ASL3 in a cloud situation want ONLY this package.
asl-appliance-pi - All Raspberry Pi-specific appliance elements. Cannot be installed with any other asl3-appliance-* package.
asl-appliance-pc - All PC hardware-specific appliance elements for devices like a standalone PC, Dell Wyse 3040, etc. Cannot be installed with any other asl3-appliance-* package.
There is still an asl3-pi-appliance package however that is a transitional package which is now empty. A standard apt update && apt upgrade on a system with the appliance package installed should result in the upgrade of asl3-pi-appliance to 2.0.0-1 which will now install asl3-appliance and asl3-appliance-pi 2.0.0-1 automatically as dependencies. New installations and the forthcoming ASL3 Appliance based on Trixie will not have the asl3-pi-appliance package installed by default.
I have to rebuild a system and prefer to start with the newest distro: trixie. If I use the beta ASL3, for trixie, package, will I be stuck with beta, or can I just remove the beta repository and update it with the released version when it’s released? Basically, I’m wondering if I should go ahead building with asl3 beta, and get my link back up sooner, or stay offline until the asl3/trixie full release comes out. Just looking for advice.
Production release of support for Trixie is imminent. The "beta" is very stable. The only things blocking production are final testing of the appliance image and documenting the upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie.