There have been some updates to Sarge from the Security Team, but what about Firefox and Thunderbird for example? Bugreports have been filed against these two addressing the recent security updates from Mozilla, but it seems to take a long time to get into Sarge.

Firefox has 1.0.6 in unstable, but also has dependencies unsuitable for Sarge (e.g. libxinerama1). Thunderbird has a 1.0.6 version for Sarge, but not in the official archive (get it here).

Anyone who knows what is happening?

I've been noticing it for sometime (I'm using "testing") and there has been a definite slowdown in updating repositories with the latest packages for a few weeks now. I don't know why, but I guess some of the package maintainers are on holiday this time of the year.

Hmm looks like the sid manager is on holiday too lol. I haven't had any updates on my package list over the weekend. Anyone else noticed this?

I have had a few updates since install of testing ( about a month) only about 20'ish I kinda thought there would be more though..

Well testing could be slow now as the real upgrades are being tested in sid and experimental now.

quick question..

is sid and experimental the same or is experimental before unstable/sid ?

Experimental is before sid.

From: http://www.us.debian.org/News/2005/20050708

why does that mean ??
Is sarge not supposed to be the current stable which means that it should be safe to upgrade to and it should get security fixes ??



The Debian project further strongly advises users to not install packages from the sarge-proposed-updates suite as has been advocated by some websites. Those packages are currently under development and may not work properly. In addition, those packages may not provide users with timely security fixes.

The security team will continue to support Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody until May 2006, or if the security support for the next release, codenamed etch, starts, whatever happens first.

It's all in the first name. Woody and sarge are getting security updates again. Woody will be supported till etch becomes stable or till may 2006.

Still no updates. And it's almost been six days since I made the last update.

Anyone has any idea what's up? Any news?

I hear the ftpmaster is away or so and once he'll be back everything should be working again. Not sure though were I read it.

It seems that the FTP master server has been done, should be fixed soon. I read it here .

Ah... Thank you.

And it looks to be up again