* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061203 20:48]: > 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 couldn't resist nit-picking, sorry) With the exception that release policy specifies: | 5. General | | (a) Supportable | | Packages in the archive must not be so buggy or out of date we | refuse to support them. But of course, what that means can be quite different in different cases - so in the end, it is (mostly) the maintainers decision (as you wrote). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
