Hi Ludovic, list, Just some minor nitpicks and additions.
Ludovic Bellière writes: > Hello terry, > > The packages present in the backports channel comes from the next > unstable (bullseye/chimaera). Unstable is sid/ceres, always. The *next* stable release, bullseye/chimaera is currently known as testing. Packages in backports may (have) come from unstable or testing at some point in time but are rebuilt against stable. This prevents a scenario where a newer version from unstable or testing would require upgrading of a lot of dependent packages, e.g. libraries, and pretty much force you to upgrade a fairly large part of your system to unstable or testing. > Where as the proposed-updates (and **not** upgrades) are the packages > who are being prepared for the next stable point release. It is > debian's review process to make sure nothing breaks. Correct but there is no upgrades. I think you meant updates which is for non-security updates that should go in ASAP and cannot really wait for the next point release. For details and examples, see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#special-case-the-stable-updates-suite This used to be called volatile. > Cheers, Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
