Hi, After 15+ years of using and contributing to Debian, I must admit that I'm confused about the role of the various stable suites. :-)
This is in the context of #887422 where I'm trying to document the various suites and their interactions. I also found [1] (SVG graph at [2]) but I'm not sure about some details. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/package-cycle [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/package-cycle/blob/master/package-cycle.svg My understanding (please correct me): * security fixes are uploaded by the security team to debian-security * non-security major fixes can be uploaded by any DD (and DM?) to stable-proposed-updates * the stable suite is only updated when point releases happen * point releases are basically: the (stable) release team reviews packages in debian-security and stable-proposed-updates, and allows them to migrate to the stable suite. Now, questions: * what's the relation between debian-security and stable-proposed-updates? Are packages from debian-security automatically copied to stable-proposed-updates so that they can later be included in the next point release? * what's the relation between stable-proposed-updates and stable-updates? Does the release team pick packages in stable-proposed-updates and allow them to migrate to stable-updates? * what's the role of stable-updates? https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates says "This path will be used for updates which many users may wish to install on their systems before the next point release is made, such as updates to virus scanners and timezone data." But there are other packages in it, such as unbound/1.6.0-3+deb9u1, which is older than the version in stable. Are the DNS-related packages in stable-updates there because of updates to the list of root servers? * Are packages in stable-updates copied to stable when stable point releases happen? (I have the impression that they aren't, but am not sure) * What is the logic behind not cleaning stable-updates and debian-security when stable point releases happen? keep things around for people who only have those suites, no 'stable', in sources.list? Thanks! - Lucas
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