Please see the thread summarized in <http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/29/>:
Policy for Woody Point-Releases. [4]Several [5]developers [6]would [7]like to add new packages and updates to their packages to the recently released stable distribution of Debian. Adding new packages and random updates to the stable distribution, however, would nullify the entire idea of having a stable release, Joey [8]explained. Hence, the same policy as before will be used for point-releases of woody. 4. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0207/msg01411.html 5. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0207/msg01416.html 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0207/msg01614.html 7. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0207/msg01483.html 8. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0207/msg01641.html Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation.