Overview

The following suites were deprecated and imported to archive.debian.org and are no longer available on the list of distributions as of 23 April 2023:

• stretch
• stretch-debug
• stretch-proposed-updates

More details about this can be found on the following Debian.org page:

•  https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/03/msg00006.html

Does this impact my Docker Images that my team's projects use?

This can impact the now-deprecated circleci prefixed convenience images which reached EOL in 2021, any custom-built images, and third party images not provided by CircleCI with the cimg prefix.

Can I still use those suites after they were removed?

Yes - There are a few ways to accomplish this.

1.  When building a Docker image, adding the following RUN command to add this new archived location to the sources.list

RUN echo "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main" > /etc/apt/sources.list

2.  At runtime during your CircleCI pipeline, add the following run step:

- run: echo "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main" > /etc/apt/sources.list

Additional Resources:

• How do I create a custom docker image for CircleCI?
• Dockerfiles for pre-built convenience images
• Getting help for an issue with a CircleCI convenience image