Martin Geisler wrote:
Ken Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been meaning to ask about why the Ubuntu hardy repo was so out
of date. It currently has v0.9.5. I googled Vincent and found this
page:
http://www-id.imag.fr/Laboratoire/Membres/Danjean_Vincent/deb.html#mercurial
which shows the package name to be mercurial_1.0-7~bpo40+1_i386.deb
which I assume means it is version 1.0.
Correct, but the bpo part also tells you that this is a package for
backports.org -- a place where people upload newer versions of
packages for the stable Debian releases.
My web page is not always uptodate... ;-)
But when I look at the Debian site:
http://packages.debian.org/etch/mercurial it lists mercurial
(0.9.1-1+etch1) which implies an even older version than Ubuntu.
The current stable Debian release is etch, and this was released in
April 2007. The next stable release (the testing distribution called
lenny) will contain 1.0.1:
Unless big security bugs, Debian packages of the stable release are never
updated. Currently, the stable release is etch. The next one, lenny, is in
preparation. It will have mercurial 1.0.1 because 1.0.2 has been released
after the freeze (ie near a release, packages cannot be updated in Debian
unless security bug. And only patch for this bug can be backported)
Hint: if anyone can point me to a specific changeset to fix the second
security bug fixed in 1.0.2 (Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the
allowpull permission), I will backport it to 1.0.1 in the next Debian
release (see http://bugs.debian.org/500781 )
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mercurial
So my interpretation of this is Ubuntu and Debian are not in sync
and Vincent has done an upgrade but it hasn't been accepted yet? I
don't really know how these things work.
Debian has an unstable distribution where new stuff is uploaded. After
14 days (normally) a package can move to the testing distribution
provided that no new bugs were reported. Once in a while the testing
distribution is released -- it is then called stable. Packages in
stable receive security updates only, even if projects release newer
versions.
It is true but near a Debian release, package cannot not be updated in 14 days
anymore.
So, for Debian :
- etch has an very old mercurial version (0.9.1) and will always keep it
- lenny (the next stable release) has version 1.0.1 (+ patch(es?) for security
bugs)
- backport.org (package from lenny rebuilt for etch) has also 1.0.1
When lenny will be released (in a few weeks ?)
- etch will not change (0.9.1)
- lenny will have 1.0.1 (+ patch(es?) for security bugs)
- squeeze (the one after lenny) will have 1.0.2 and any new mercurial version
before squeeze release
- backport.org will also have 1.0.2 for lenny (and etch if I have enough time)
I do not know how/when Ubuntu takes Debian packages to include them in Ubuntu.
(I do not follow Ubuntu development)
Regards,
Vincent
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