Hello, world, some packages aim at fast moving targets like spam filtering and virus scanning, and even using methods like updating virus patterns by a daemon on the local system, this doesn't really work for the full time of a stable release. There have been discussion about how to allow system administrators to update their systems in a nice, consistent way without getting the drawbacks of using unstable, even without getting the drawback for the selected packages. A new project called debian-volatile has been created to achieve this. The status of debian-volatile is as follows. For getting some debian-volatile support up, and for getting experience how it works, and what the issues are, volatile.debian.net has been created. A first package, whois, has already been accepted into the debian-volatile section for woody. We expect that debian-volatile will reach a full working status once sarge is released, but of course, we aim that it is useable any time (and we believe it is). We are interessted about feedback, especially from normal users of Debian. The canonical contact address for any issues with debian-volatile is debian-volatile@volatile.debian.net; however, looking at the web page at http://volatile.debian.net before might reduce our work load. Our next steps are to create a browseable list of updates, like we have for security. Apart from that, identifying packages worth and appropriate for inclusion into volatile is necessary. If you are more interessted in debian-volatile, you can join our mailing list and also reach us at #debian-volatile on irc.debian.org. For the list of mirrors, please see http://volatile.debian.net/mirrors.html Cheers, Andi
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