XFCE 4.4 and Debian Etch?

[Alexander Toresson]

On 1/10/07, Mişu Moldovan <dumol at gnome.ro> 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)
>

New versions of packages can still come into etch, but the
maintainer(s) will need permission from the release managers.

Regards, Alexander Toresson