Re: etch's upgrades during life cycle

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

Luis Matos <gass@otiliamatos.ath.cx> writes:

> Qui, 2007-01-04 às 11:10 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves escreveu:
>> 
>> backports.org is, to my mind, a perfect solution to this problem; it
>> allows you to selectively upgrade your favourite/important packages that
>> you need, whilst retaining the stable base on which to run them.
>> 
>
> here i agree that backports.org is the way out and that should be
> official so maintainers could upload backports in a easier and have a
> better security support. (and gives users other view for it if
> backports.org is indeed in debian and recommended by debian.)

Maybe backports.org is too much and changing to frequently to provide
security support for and to be really stable.

There could be another archive called updates.debian.org where
selected packages go in in coordination with the security and stable
release teams.

Matthias