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Re: What is Required to Move a .deb to Stable?



On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:08:12PM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> The "Unstable" seems to work fine, so what is required to move them to 
> "Stable"

With a few exceptions (security updates), packages are only moved to
stable en masse when a release of the whole distribution is made.

> I am wondering what benefits or assurances are offered differently 
> than for the "Unstable" packages..

Packages in stable are supported by the security team. Packages in
unstable are not.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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