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Update Debian backports suite for bullseye (#6873)#6884

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@challvy challvy commented May 15, 2026

Proposed Commit Message

fix(debian): Update Debian backports suite for bullseye (#6873)

Add logic to skip Debian 11 (bullseye) backports in templates.
As per the Backports Policy, oldstable-backports are only available
for one year after the new stable release. Since Debian 12 was
released in June 2023, bullseye-backports was disabled on June 2024.

This prevents apt update failures in current (2026) environments.

Additional Context

  • Debian 11 backports repository was officially deprecated: link
  • Users experience APT errors: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports Release' does not have a Release file
  • This affects all cloud-init deployments on Debian 11 that use the default apt configuration

Test Steps

  1. Deploy a Debian 11 (bullseye) instance using cloud-init
  2. Check /etc/apt/sources.list
  3. Observe that bullseye-backports repository is included

Merge type

  • Squash merge using "Proposed Commit Message"
  • Rebase and merge unique commits. Requires commit messages per-commit each referencing the pull request number (#<PR_NUM>)

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