On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 01:20:26PM +0800, hlyg wrote: > Thank Mike Castle! > > i suppose update cycle becomes short if there are major important patch, > correction or adjustments > >
I think the aim is to have a roughly 2 month cycle per point release for the current stable and a 3-4 month release for "oldstable" during the first year after a release. That does mean, if you're unlucky, that there gets to be a double release every now and again - which means a very long weekend of building and testing. There are some people who will never ever use a dot-0 release. It's quite safe to do this in Debian as it will hve had about two years of testing prior to release. The idea of a point release is also to periodically round up security fixes and publish them in a block. If you update regularly - say once a week - to pick up fixes and patches, then a point release will change very little indeed. All the very best, as ever, Andy