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

[Alastair McKinstry]

On 2011-02-16 05:42, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> 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?
>
Yes, it was designed that way. I had planned that iso-codes would go into
volatile, but that never happened, unfortunately.

Even every 3 months or so, or on significant changes (eg. Sudan 
splitting into
two countries, etc.)

regards
Alastair
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> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:30:57 +0100
> From: Meike Reichle<meike at debian.org>
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> Subject: Debian volatile replaced by new updates suite
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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
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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