[Pkg-isocodes-devel] (forw) Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite

[Christian PERRIER]

I think that "our" iso-codes does really well fit the definition of
"is appropriate for squeeze-updates".

Tobias, do you think we could imagine updating iso-codes in squeeze
seomthing like every 6 months or so?

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Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite            press at debian.org
February 15nd, 2011              http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215
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Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite

The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting from the upcoming
Debian release 6.0 ("Squeeze").  It is replaced by the suite
squeeze-updates on the official mirrors.  Its management will move to
the Debian Release Team, who already manage regular updates to Debian
stable and oldstable.

The squeeze-updates suite is carried by all official mirrors[0] just
like Squeeze itself.  To use it, a snippet such as the following can be
used in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main

[0] http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

Announcements about stable updates pushed through squeeze-updates will
be published on debian-stable-announce at lists.debian.org To subscribe
please visit its web page[1].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/

This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following
criteria:

 * The update is urgent and not of a security nature.  Security updates
   will continue to be pushed through the security archive.  Examples
   include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
   the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
   releases.

 * The package in question is a data package and the data must be
   updated in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).

 * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
   video downloading tools and tor).

 * Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).

These updates will also be included in the next stable point release
after the announcement.  Regular updates not fitting the criteria above
will be pushed through point releases according to the rules of the
Stable Release Management.


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