------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Volatile Update Announcement VUA 76-2 http://volatile.debian.org debian-volatile@lists.debian.org Philipp Kern February 26th, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Debian Volatile archive is now discontinued. There will be no further updates. Mirrors will soon cease to carry it. Starting from Debian 6.0 ("squeeze") it was replaced by the suite `squeeze-updates' on the official mirrors, managed by the Debian Release Team. This announcement list and the discussion list `debian-volatile@lists.debian.org' will be closed in two weeks time. Followup questions should be directed at `debian-release@lists.debian.org'. For completeness, here is the announcement text of VUA 76-1, released January 29th, 2011: 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. 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. The squeeze-updates suite is carried by all official mirrors 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 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: http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/
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