Releasing a new stable major version of Debian includes a lot of different teams working together to make it happen. At some point, the Live team comes in and builds live system images. The requirements to do this are:
- The local debian mirror (debian, debian-security, debian-volatile) of the debian-live buildd needs to be synced against a mirror that contains the released version.
- The names of the image need to be known (e.g. debian-live-VERSION-ARCH-FLAVOUR.iso).
- The data from debian-cd needs to be synced (udeb exclude lists).
- The includes from debian-cd needs to be synced (README.*, doc/*, etc.).
- Images are built and mirrored on cdimage.debian.org.