[IT-SecNots] [VUA 76-1] volatile replaced by new updates suite

[Philipp Kern <pkern AT debian.org>]

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Debian Volatile Update Announcement VUA 76-1     http://volatile.debian.org
debian-volatile AT lists.debian.org                               Philipp Kern
January 28th, 2011
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The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting from the upcoming
Debian release 6.0 (squeeze).  It is replaced by the suite
squeeze-updates on the official mirrors.  Its management will move to
the Debian Release Team, who already manage regular updates to Debian
stable and oldstable.

This suite will contain updates that satisfy one of the following criteria:

 * The update is urgent and not of a security nature.  Security updates
   will continue to be pushed through the security archive.  Examples
   include packages broken by the flow of time (c.f. spamassassin and
   the year 2010 problem) and fixes for bugs introduced by point
   releases.
 * The package in question is a data package and the data must be updated
   in a timely manner (e.g. tzdata).
 * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
   video downloading tools and tor).
 * Packages that need to be current to be useful (e.g. clamav).

These updates will also be included in the next stable point release
after the announcement.  Regular updates not fitting the criteria above
will be pushed through point releases according to the rules of the
Stable Release Management.

The squeeze-updates suite is carried by all official mirrors just like
squeeze itself.  To use it, a snippet such as the following can be used
in `/etc/apt/sources.list':

 deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main

Announcements about stable updates pushed through squeeze-updates will be
published on `debian-stable-announce AT lists.debian.org'.  To subscribe
please visit its web page:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/

Lenny's Volatile suite might still get updates on a case-by-case basis
after the release of Squeeze as the next stable version.


About Debian Volatile
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For further information about debian-volatile, please refer to
`http://www.debian.org/volatile/'.

If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the
debian-volatile team at `debian-volatile AT lists.debian.org'.

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