On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 10:52 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 09:24:38AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > That's exactly the sort of scenario that stable-updates exists for. > > It's enabled by default by d-i, and to the best of my recollection > > has > > been since it was introduced in squeeze. It's explicitly listed as > > an > > expected part of an APT source for trixie in the Release Notes. > > There is one thing so nice about Debian that you never cease to > learn. I always (and wrongly) thought that foo-updates would be > directly what people upload through foo-proposed-updates. I was not > aware that the contents of foo-updates was also curated by the > Release Team and though always said "no" to the respective question > in the Installer.
It's a curated subset of foo-proposed-updates, yeah. For those updates that we (in conjunction with the preparer of the update) judge should be available more widely, in advance of a point release. > Thanks for correcting me and teaching me things. Thanks for being happy and willing to learn. :-) Regards, Adam
