Fwd: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean

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From: Jeff Waugh <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean
To: [email protected]


<quote who="Martin Barry">

 > But anything worthy of going into ${ubuntu_release}-updates is surely
 > worth putting straight into ${ubuntu_release} ? Or is it just me?

 Post-release, that archive is never touched. It means that users get to
 choose how much damage they're willing to accept:

  * <release>: Don't touch it, I like consistency, even with my bugs.

  * <release>-security: I'll accept patches to existing versions (and very
   rare version upgrades if absolutely necessary) in the process of keeping
   my system secure.

  * <release-updates>: Okay, some bugs are worth fixing, and I trust you this
   much (holds up two fingers like Maxwell Smart).

  * <release-backports>: I have something akin to technology ADHD, needing
   the latest of everything I can possibly get, but I'm a sooky little
   wuss-fart because I can't handle running the development branch.

  * <devel>: I can take it. Seriously. If you break my X, I shall become more
   powerful than you could possibly imagine. I'll file and maybe even fix
   the bugs and I'll do it even if power management is not so much 'managed'
   as vomited all over the wall. Come get some.

  * <debian>: We do the work so you don't have to.

 - Jeff

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