I had some time to work on this and we have all of our package dependencies
resolved now. There is a test image available in the debian-cloud-testing
project which appears to work but we have a lot more validation to do. At
the very least it does boot and you can login as normal. PTAL!

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Zach Marano
[email protected]


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:38 AM Zach Marano <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ted!
> We will work on this soon and try to get a working bullseye image in that
> project (which is not actively maintained and just sort of best effort).
> Primarily, we just need to get the build config
> <https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images> for GCE
> bullseye working. We generally don't do this until exactly this point in
> thE Debian release cycle.
>
> -----
> Zach Marano
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:58 AM Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey, now that we've hit hard freeze for Bullseye, I was hoping that
>> perhaps we could start making a GCE image for Debian-11 availble?
>>
>> For Debian 10, a few months before it was released, there was a test
>> image that was made available in the debian-cloud-testing project:
>>
>> % gcloud compute images --project debian-cloud-testing list
>> --no-standard-images
>> NAME                        PROJECT               FAMILY      DEPRECATED
>> STATUS
>> debian-10-buster-v20191205  debian-cloud-testing  debian-10
>>  READY
>> debian-sid-v20190812        debian-cloud-testing  debian-sid
>> READY
>>
>> Perhaps it would make sense to make an image for Bullseye in
>> debian-cloud-testing, so it doesn't accidentally get picked up and
>> used in production environments before Bullseye gets released as
>> Debian Stable?
>>
>> I've never built a GCE image from scratch before, but if someone wants
>> to point me at the instructions, I'm happy to give it a try, and would
>> be willing to help with updating the debian-cloud-testing project.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>>                                         - Ted
>>
>>

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