OT: Debian Etch

[Richard Boyce]

Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> Richard Boyce wrote:
>> Mişu Moldovan wrote:
>>> Jesus might know better but from what I see, Debian etch hasn't been
>>> released yet as Debian Stable and packages are updated at a rate
>>> comparable to that of Debian Sid (unstable). They will probably include
>>> the final release of Xfce 4.4 if it happens to come out in time for the
>>> Etch release. Any Debian packagers around care to comment about that?
>> Not a Debian developer, but I do know that etch has now been frozen 
>> prior to its release, so only fixes for release-critical bugs will be 
>> accepted. New releases generally won't be allowed in. Backports would 
>> probably be your best bet.
> 
> Strange, I still see new releases coming in (not only the Debian suffix
> version is incremented). From today's updates on a machine that was last
> updated during the weekend (mozilla-mplayer is from "main"):
> 
> 	mozilla-mplayer (3.21-1 => 3.31+main-1)

I probably should have said: New releases generally won't be allowed in 
unless they fix release-critical bugs.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html

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Richard Boyce
SysEng, CCDC
http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk