Re: Types of Debian updates
On Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 15:37:24 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 05:49:31PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
[...]
> > Release
>
> Major release. Strictly, Debian has several releases in play at any one
> time.
OK, if it relates to stable and oldstable.
> There is a section called Experimental which has a few packages but is not
> really a release - it's a staging area for experimental packages. Almost
> certainly for developers only or people on the very bleeding edge.
>
> There is always a subset of Debian that is Unstable - codename Sid.
>
> There's a release that is Testing - currently Bullseye - which will be
> Debian 11 when released.Under normal circumstances, packages would percolate
> from Unstable to Testing, but at the moment Testing is frozen for release
> when it's ready.
I wouldn't see experimental, unstable or testing as Releases.
> There's the stable branch: Currently Buster - Debian 10.10.
That's the present Release. To nitpick - I'd see buster as the one,
true Debian (for the next few weeks).
> There's oldstable - Debian 9 - and oldoldstable - Debian 8 under support
> as either LTS or ELTS.
This support is not engineered by Debian.
--
Brian.
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