Hello, Le samedi 22 juillet 2023, Daniel Gröber a écrit : > > (eventually an update/security fix will be part of stable via a point > > release, so such a setting considerably delays the updates, but doesn't > > prevent them as such. While I wouldn't recommended it, there might be > > people who desire exactly this behaviour…) > > Ah, I didn't realise this is something that can be relied on. In that case > the problem is a lot less concerning indeed.
This holds true only for the first 3 years where there are point releases that are generated. Afterwards, the security updates stay in the security repository and are never merged. So we can't really rely on this only. > > As you may have noticed, the 'stable' doesn't include 'stable-updates' > > either and that isn't new – and also part of the reason for this funny > > regex. I was surprised then I discovered that entry the first time in > > the release notes as we were never asked about it. > > Looking at the apt.conf and apt_preference manpages there is still no > mention of the regex support, perhaps this should be documented there? Agreed. It would be nice to document that we can use regex here and that it actually makes sense to do so as most Debian release are actually composed of multiple repositories. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog
