Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite
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The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/
Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite press@debian.org
February 15nd, 2011 http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215
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Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite
The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting from the upcoming
Debian release 6.0 ("Squeeze"). It is replaced by the suite
squeeze-updates on the official mirrors. Its management will move to
the Debian Release Team, who already manage regular updates to Debian
stable and oldstable.
The squeeze-updates suite is carried by all official mirrors[0] just
like Squeeze itself. To use it, a snippet such as the following can be
used in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main
[0] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Announcements about stable updates pushed through squeeze-updates will
be published on debian-stable-announce@lists.debian.org To subscribe
please visit its web page[1].
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/
This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following
criteria:
* The update is urgent and not of a security nature. Security updates
will continue to be pushed through the security archive. Examples
include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
releases.
* The package in question is a data package and the data must be
updated in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).
* Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
video downloading tools and tor).
* Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).
These updates will also be included in the next stable point release
after the announcement. Regular updates not fitting the criteria above
will be pushed through point releases according to the rules of the
Stable Release Management.
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