Hello, Maybe this will fit into the moreinfo.dbk of Debian release notes I hope I did right, taking most of the text from http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates.en.html If this is fine I can offer a german version, too.
Regards Toby The proposed-updates mechanism If you get frustrated by waiting for some bugs to be fixed in Lenny you might want to check the proposed-updates repositories. All changes to the released, stable (and oldstable) distribution go through an extended testing period before they are accepted into the arch ives. Each such update of the stable (oldstable) release is called a point release. Preparation of point releases is done through the propose d-updates mechanism. Accepted packages are uploaded to a separate repository called proposed-updates (oldstable-proposed-updates). To use these packages with APT, you can add the following lines to your sources.list file: # proposed updates for the next point release deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch-proposed-updates main contrib non-free Note that the /debian/mirrors (http://www.debian.org/mirror/list) will have this, it is not necessary to use this particular one, the above choice of ftp.us.debian.org is just an example. New packages can arrive into proposed-updates when Debian developers upload them either to proposed-updates (oldstable-proposed-updates), or to stable (oldstable). Debian's Stable Release Team regularly reviews the packages and decide whether to accept or reject them. It should be noted that packages from security.debian.org are copied into the proposed-updates directory automatically. At the same time, packages that are uploaded directly to proposed-updates (oldstable-proposed-updates) are not monitored by the Debian security team. The current list of packages that are in the proposed-updates repository can be seen at http://ftp-master.debian.org/proposed-updates.html (http://ftp-master.debian.org/oldstable-proposed-updates.html). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
