[ubuntu-uk] Package Management

[Toby Smithe]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:21 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> does anyone know what the criteria is for incorporating new stable packages
> from existing applications into the various repositories?
> 
> For instance, if within Gnome a new stable version of one of it's component
> programs were launched, how soon would it be before it were available in the
> repository?

It depends heavily on the circumstances. Until UpstreamVersionFreeze, a
new upstream version will be easily included into the development
release. After that a freeze exception will have to be granted.

For a stable release, there are no new upstream versions included into
the standard repositories, and no new packages ("feature frozen").
Stable Release Updates are allowed to fix bugs in packages, but not with
new versions (which are untested and could break a mission-critical
project with unseen bugs or regressions). Backports is provided for this
purpose, but is not supported.

Check out [0],

Toby

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU