Hi Mike,
Despite the website and the rhetoric on this mailing list, here is how I
would summarise things:
stable: set of packages released
testing: set of packages that may, eventually, become stable
volatile: update to packages in stable to keep them functional or useful
to stable users more frequently than stable is updated
backports: packages *not* in stable but that end-users would like to use
on stable-based systems
If you are an end-user then you have two hurdles:
- convince the Debian maintainer that supporting another version
is beneficial
- convince the debian-volatile group that incorporating a
package is beneficial.
I think you will find, as I have, that the last hurdle is the really
major one.
Regards,
Anand
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