On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 00:50 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> I've just changed /etc/apt/sources.list entries from testing to Etch, and run
> apt-get update again, followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. I now have the same
> amount of packages to download, so it appears there are still a lot of
> updates for Etch even though testing is frozen.
That's normal, bugs are still fixed in packages, this is what the freeze
is for. These are the conditions for releasing a new version in Etch:
- fixes for release critical bugs (i.e., bugs of severity critical,
grave, and serious) in all packages;
- changes for release goals, if they are not invasive;
- fixes for severity: important bugs in packages of priority: optional
or extra, only when this can be done via unstable;
- translation updates and
- documentation fixes.
Taken from the freeze announcement, good reading if you're interested in the procedure.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html
> What the hell though are these "Diffindex" things, and all the lines while
> running apt-get update that end in "pdiff". I havn't seen them in Sarge, and
> don't recall having seen them in Etch before a couple of weeks ago.
See here for a good explanation,
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/439
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Sven Arvidsson
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