Re: package update policy

2006-12-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* 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

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:21:44 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Yes, but I think nvidia-kernel-source has no effect on Etch's release > in any way. Also nvidia-kernel-source has never been part of testing > as per the package's qa page. It was in testing and was then kicked [1], now it is waiting t

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:38:15 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> The latest nvidia stable release (9629) was made on November 7th, >> 2006. But it is still not included into Debian >> (testing/unstable/experimental). I noticed that it is already part of >> Ubuntu Feisty. >

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
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 ne

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:38:15 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The latest nvidia stable release (9629) was made on November 7th, > 2006. But it is still not included into Debian > (testing/unstable/experimental). I noticed that it is already part of > Ubuntu Feisty. Didn't you answer this question

package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, I'm not trying to start any argument. The latest nvidia stable release (9629) was made on November 7th, 2006. But it is still not included into Debian (testing/unstable/experimental). I noticed that it is already part of Ubuntu Feisty. I just wanted to know if Debian has a policy (timeline)