Hello Team, I know I'm risking being unaware of something that invalidates this request, so please also consider this a request for clarifications if it's the case.
While discussing #954460 [0] with Cyril, I decided to give it a try to update the debian-reference section which mentions the "-updates" repository[1], to make it more informative on what it's about, and noticed that the reference does not mention that this repository is enabled by default, currently putting it side-by-side with the backports repository (which I consider a bad thing). So I started thinking about how the whole section should be rewritten to make it more clear how Debian deals with point releases and stable updates, and I realized that "-updates" could actually just be removed totally and updates could be pushed to the main repository instead, thus reducing the complexity and helping with the user confusion about what is "-updates" and how point releases works[2]. Is there any gotcha that I'm missing here? An user which doesn't want to have "-updates" merged into the main repository could accomplish the same by just not updating their system, which is something nobody should do anyway[3] but the behavior would still be there. Regards, [0] remove mentions of "volatile" repo from sources.list: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=954460 [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports [2] unfortunately it's still very common for users to not understand point releases are just the transition from -updates to the main repo, and that considering -updates is already enabled, it makes no difference as long as the system is updated. [3] such cases would also be more clear, because instead of the situation being "my system is updated (false), I just don't use -updates" to "I haven't updated the system since the last point release" -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
