On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:45:46 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > --nextPart1623703.JhhgrbnWO2 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > In <slrnh85u4r.531....@laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org>, S. Fishpaste wrote: >>Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older >> laptop and other than wanting an uptodate browser *always* I'd prefer to >> use backports. Wonder why either backports or volatile don't carry the >> latest versions of Iceweasel|Firefox. I thought that was the purpose of >> those 2 sources. > > Volatile is for software that fails to achieve its goal if it is not update= > d=20 > much more often than stable, such as anti-virus and anti-spam. The browser= > s=20 > that are part of stable still function (I use them). I believe FF was in=20 > volatile-sloppy for a while, and I would not object to it living there=20 > again. > > Backports is for any software has been released since stable that can run i= > n=20 > the environment provided by stable (which generally means running on older= >=20 > libraries). The Mozilla products generally require a number of components= >=20 > to be incompatibly replaced with new versions, which can make them=20 > unsuitable for Backports. Sometimes backports of the Mozilla products to=20 > appear though. > > Sid is for software that the maintainer feels could be suitable for a Debia= > n=20 > release. Generally, this is not VCS snapshots, alphas, or betas. It might= >=20 > also exclude some RCs. For the KDE project, it even excluded two releases= >=20 > of KDE 4. The software should have a maintainable API/ABI and be usable (a= > s=20 > in, not crashy and contains enough features) for the majority of the users= >=20 > it targets. > > Experimental is for packages that are not suitable for Sid, for whatever=20 > reason. The packaging could be undergoing complex changes and may not=20 > install the majority of machines. The software itself might be unreleased= >=20 > by upstream, but upstream or the maintainer are eliciting feedback.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. > In all cases, packages are only available as the packagers have time to=20 > build and upload them. Want more up-to-date packages? Get to work! Well I guess a start would be for me to read up on backports to see if I have the necssary expertise. ;-D > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > > > --nextPart1623703.JhhgrbnWO2 > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc > Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. > > > --nextPart1623703.JhhgrbnWO2-- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
