Mrinal Kalakrishnan proclaimed:
> I have a debian doubt - now that potato is frozen, does it mean that
> packages do not get upgraded? It has been frozen for more than 2
> months now - so will all the packages on the final CDs be that old?
As a general rule, packages in frozen do not get upgraded dramatically.
The freeze is enforced so that release critical bugs can be fixed. Let us
say version 1.0.1-3 (The -3 refers to the Debian package version of this
upstream version) of package foo has a release critical bug. The
maintainer of foo first tries to fix the bug and upload 1.0.1-4 of package
foo. If the bug has been fixed in a new upstream source version 1.0.2 AND
is not fixable in version 1.0.1, then the maintainer, with approval from
the FTP master, packages 1.0.2-1 and uploads it.
Not all the software in a Debian CD are developed at a rapid rate upstream.
> It'll no longer be fresh meat... ;-)
I stay with a version of Debian till a couple of months after it is
released. This gives unstable enough time to become "stable enough". Once
I deem unstable to be stable enough, I move to unstable till it freezes and
is released. I /never/ do this with production boxes
(lists.linux-india.org, for example, runs on slink and not potato). Only
with my personal desktop system.
Thaths
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