Hi Bart, you are right concerning the stable package. But what about the unstable package that is also meant to be for testing users? I use testing as desktop plattform an I guess that a lot of other debian users as well. In testing and unstable there are updates of major software versions all the time. So I guess that these users should get updates from the apt/aptitude way automatically. What do you think? The same says message #19 of bug #475794 that is a duplicate of my bugreport and was reported a day after this bug.
Do you know anything about a generic Debian solution like debian-volatile for spam and virus scanners for this purpose? The best solution would be a repository of Adobe like Opera does. They manage the repository and users add this repository if they trust them. But only few enterprises do that. Google does (http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html) but they only seem to provide picasa. What do you think about a project with a name like "Debian Exterior". This is a repository that providess in the packages only download links of the external software to be downloaded. There is a script on a debian server that informs the package maintainer if there is a new version (polling twice a day with wget/curl and md5sum). If the package maintainer say OK, it gets into Debian Exterior Unstable. After 10 (or maybe 5 days) it goes automatically into testing like the main Debian repositories. If the maintainer says that the new software version is a security fix the delay form Unstable to Testing is less days, maybe 2 days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
