Re: a policy question about stable

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

Adam Aube <aaube01@baker.edu> writes:

> Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>
>> I know testing(sarge) has delayed updates than stable/sid. My
>> question is when sarge gets into stable and such problems occur,
>> how do things get accomplished ?
>> Does packages like gaim and others remain unusable or their
>> versions are increased or they are patched ?
>
> Quoted from a message on the Debian Devel Announce List:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/04/msg00000.html
>
> "The regulations for stable are quite conservative.  The requirements
> for packages to get into stable are:
[...]

Note that these are only the requirements that must be met for an
updated package to be accepted in a stable release.  It does not mean a
package will necessarily be updated if it meets the requirements.

For non-security issues, the package's maintainer still has to go
through the effort of preparing the new package and submitting it to
stable-proposed-updates.  Considering the age of woody and the general
lack of interest in it, not many maintainers are willing to put in that
effort.

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