Add buster images

[dentarg]

Do you have any plans to add buster images, or is it expected to be contributed by the community?

If someone would contribute, is it expected that images for all versions (2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6) are added?

[tianon]

I'm sorry to say that I'm honestly pretty strongly -1 on adding buster variants right now. Debian Buster is the current "testing" repository, which means that any package updates in Buster (including and especially security fixes) will be delayed anywhere from 2-10 days (and in some cases even longer). Once Buster gets closer to freeze (and thus release as Stable), I'd be more willing to consider an additional variant for it.

[dentarg]

@tianon Thanks for the reply, when I opened the issue I didn't know that this was the case with buster (I thought it was stable as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is based on it). I understand your hesitation to add buster today.

[tianon]

Sure! See https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/ for more information about the Buster release. 👍

[yosifkit]

Closing. Since we maintain the Debian images as well, we'll likely add Buster images once it is released later this year.