Re: Some updates not contained on point release DVDs
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:51:50PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>as this is a low traffic mailing list I dare to ask a question.
:-) Brave!
>I noticed that some (security) updates for Debian lenny are available
>from debian/security for a while, but never made it on an point
>release DVD image. Examples?
>
>hille@drachi:~$ apt-cache policy openjdk-6-jre
>openjdk-6-jre:
> Installed: 6b11-9.1+lenny2
> Candidate: 6b11-9.1+lenny2
> Version table:
> *** 6b11-9.1+lenny2 0
> 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 6b11-9.1 0
> 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386
>DVD Binary-1 20090214-16:54] lenny/main Packages
>
>(was released in April 2009).
>
>More examples are: squid, vlc, openldap... Most updates however are
>on this discs like linux-image-2.6-686.
>
>Were they simply forgotten or is this intentional? Many thanks!
This particular package looks like it never made it into a point
release at all, not just the CDs. In the current lenny Packages.gz
file for i386, I see:
Package: openjdk-6-jre
Priority: extra
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 656
Maintainer: OpenJDK Team <openjdk@lists.launchpad.net>
Architecture: i386
Source: openjdk-6
Version: 6b11-9.1
...
Similar thing for vlc and squid, from a quick check, It's worth asking
the stable release manager(s) or the security team why these updates
have not made it into the lenny point releases. I'm interested
myself...
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