package updates

James Tappin sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk
Fri Nov 18 22:41:46 UTC 2011


On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:20:00 -0500
Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com> wrote:

UU> I've been notified a number of times about updates since I installed
UU> Ubuntu, 24 October 2011. Both for the system and software I have on
UU> the system.
UU> 
UU> My questions is: How long does it take before the 'Ubuntu Update
UU> Manager' notifies me about the new versions of software?

Updates do not generally introduce new versions of packages (except at
the micro-version level), but provide fixes to the existing version. If
there are serious security issues the fixes will be backported to the
current version [I think but am not sure that the only time a major
version change would occur within a release would be when a security fix
could not be backported]. So in short I would not expect to see FF8 etc.
until version 12.04.


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