Re: how to update packages now sarge is stable?

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> The stable distribution has the unique feature that packages in it will 
> not be upgraded unless there is a security fix. Only when new stable 
> version is released and only when you update the machine to that new 
> stable version then you will have newer packages. So, until etch (the 
> next stable release) is released, you will not have new version of 
> firefox in stable. In any case, there will not be a new version of 
> firefox in sarge (except for a security fix).

Firefox 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 contain security fixes.  If they're not released 
as security fixes for sarge, they should be.

Also, you might want to mention that to get sarge security fixes you 
need to have an additional line similar to this one (with whatever 
mirror you like/use) in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main

You also need one for deb-src packages if you use those.

If the original poster was running sarge for a long time, they may not 
have this entry.

Nate