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# About this image

The images in this repository are intended to be as minimal as possible (because of the immutable/layered nature of containers, it's much easier to add than it is to remove). More specifically, they're built from [the "minbase" variant](https://manpages.debian.org/stable/debootstrap/debootstrap.8.en.html#variant=minbase_buildd_fakechroot), which only installs "required" packages, and thus creates the smallest possible footprint that is still "Debian" (as defined/managed by [the Release and FTP teams](https://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution) within the project).
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This may add a nice highlight effect to really call it out.

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The images in this repository are intended to be as minimal as possible (because of the immutable/layered nature of containers, it's much easier to add than it is to remove). More specifically, they're built from [the "minbase" variant](https://manpages.debian.org/stable/debootstrap/debootstrap.8.en.html#variant=minbase_buildd_fakechroot), which only installs "required" packages, and thus creates the smallest possible footprint that is still "Debian" (as defined/managed by [the Release and FTP teams](https://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution) within the project).
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> The images in this repository are intended to be as minimal as possible (because of the immutable/layered nature of containers, it's much easier to add than it is to remove). More specifically, they're built from [the "minbase" variant](https://manpages.debian.org/stable/debootstrap/debootstrap.8.en.html#variant=minbase_buildd_fakechroot), which only installs "required" packages, and thus creates the smallest possible footprint that is still "Debian" (as defined/managed by [the Release and FTP teams](https://www.debian.org/intro/organization#distribution) within the project).

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The images in this repository are intended to be as minimal as possible (because of the immutable/layered nature of containers, it's much easier to add than it is to remove). More specifically, they're built from the "minbase" variant, which only installs "required" packages, and thus creates the smallest possible footprint that is still "Debian" (as defined/managed by the Release and FTP teams within the project).

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Unfortunately the target of this is Docker Hub, not GitHub, and that's a GitHub-specific markup.


The `%%IMAGE%%:latest` tag will always point the latest stable release. Stable releases are also tagged with their version (ie, `%%IMAGE%%:11` is an alias for `%%IMAGE%%:bullseye`, `%%IMAGE%%:10` is an alias for `%%IMAGE%%:buster`, etc).

The rolling tags (`%%IMAGE%%:stable`, `%%IMAGE%%:testing`, etc) use the rolling suite names in their `/etc/apt/sources.list` file (ie, `deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main`).
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