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'''Please note: The debian-volatile project has been discontinued with the Debian Squeeze release. See this [[http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110215 |announcement]] (or this [[http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00000.html|mail]]) for details.'''
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= debian-volatile =
Some packages aim at fast moving targets like spam filtering and virus scanning, and even via using updated virus patterns. This doesn't really work for the full time of a stable release. The main issue of volatile is to allow system administrators/users to update their systems in a consistent way without getting the drawbacks of using unstable, or even without getting the drawback for the selected packages.

## IS THIS ACCURATE ? ## It can be used to update the kernel too.

Besides being built for stable (lenny), all the dependencies are satisfied inside
stable, so not external or additional backported packages are needed (IIRC)

== Known errors ==

=== 404 Not Found, not available in Squeeze ===
While running {{{aptitude update}}}, you get
{{{
...
http://volatile.debian.org squeeze/volatile/main i386 Packages [ERROR]
 404 Not Found [IP: 86.59.118.153 80]
...
}}}
DebianVolatile has been superseded by {{{squeeze-updates}}} since Debian Squeeze. read the instruction on StableUpdates.



== See also ==
  * http://www.debian.org/volatile/ - Debian-Volatile official page.
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The debian-volatile project has been discontinued with the release of DebianSqueeze. Its replacement is the stable-updates suite.

The debian-volatile project has been discontinued with the release of DebianSqueeze. Its replacement is the stable-updates suite.