Hi Ben First many thanks for your help. Much appriciated.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 05:16:16AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: ... > > I understand that this is the case before the release. However after > > the release only security updates are there, unless there is a point > > release to be planned. That is at least the case for all other > > packages in Debian. > [...] > > Not quite. > > People using a Debian stable release should have the following package > sources: > - stable (updated at point releases) > - stable-security (updated at any time for security fixes) > - stable-updates (updated at any time for other important fixes; this > is new for Debian 6.0 and replaces the volatile suite) Thanks for the reminder about stable-updates, and also change of mind. I got the impression that stable-updates was merely a volatile renamed, but I see now that it can be used for other purposes as well as you describe below. > All upgrades in stable and stable-updates initially go into: > - stable-proposed-updates > from which some users and developers may install and test them. Yes that is a point. I'm too focused on release, while this is a community where pre-release versions may as well be important. > We (the kernel team) generally merge updates in the 2.6.32.y series into > our stable branch quickly, and may upload to stable-proposed-updates > multiple times between point releases. We can request that important > fixes are released through stable-updates, though we haven't yet done > so. This is good to know. > While we continue to maintain packaging using svn (this will change > RSN :-), the source changes are also converted into the 'squeeze' branch > of <git://anonscm.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git>. Beware that this > branch is generated from a patch series and is effectively rebased. Thanks for letting me know. Best regards, // Ola > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
