Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just wanted to know if Debian has a policy (timeline) for inclusion of > a newer release of a software.
No, it doesn't. Individual maintainers may set such a policy for their own packages, but Debian has no distribution-wide policy on how fast newer releases of software are included. It's not really possible to set such a policy across the board; sometimes one never wants to incorporate a newer release of a piece of software for some reason. > I'm bringing nvidia-kernel-source package as an example because afaik it > doesn't affect the package freeze for Debian because it is not part of > the stable release. Er, well, yes it is, to the extent that non-free is part of Debian at all. non-free is frozen and released just like everything else; it's just not part of Debian proper. > My understanding is that since Debian is completely a voluntary based > distribution, no one can demand a date for inclusion/updation of any > package. Correct. Right now in particular many of us are holding non-bug-fix releases of the software packages we maintain so as not to disrupt the archive right before a hopeful freeze for the etch release. For instance, once etch is frozen, I'll upload a new development snapshot of gnubg that fixes a bunch of minor bugs, none of which are important enough to try to rush into the release when new development snapshots often have other more significant bugs that take a while to track down. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]