Re: package update policy

2006-12-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061203 20:48]: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just wanted to know if Debian has a policy (timeline) for inclusion of > > a newer release of a software. > > No, it doesn't. > > Individual maintainers may set such a policy for their own

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:21:44 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Yes, but I think nvidia-kernel-source has no effect on Etch's release > in any way. Also nvidia-kernel-source has never been part of testing > as per the package's qa page. It was in testing and was then kicked [1], now it is waiting t

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:38:15 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > >> The latest nvidia stable release (9629) was made on November 7th, >> 2006. But it is still not included into Debian >> (testing/unstable/experimental). I noticed that it is already part of >> Ubuntu Feisty. >

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just wanted to know if Debian has a policy (timeline) for inclusion of > a newer release of a software. No, it doesn't. Individual maintainers may set such a policy for their own packages, but Debian has no distribution-wide policy on how fast ne

Re: package update policy

2006-12-03 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:38:15 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The latest nvidia stable release (9629) was made on November 7th, > 2006. But it is still not included into Debian > (testing/unstable/experimental). I noticed that it is already part of > Ubuntu Feisty. Didn't you answer this question