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stable-updates

Introduction

Some packages from proposed-updates may also be made available via the stable-updates suite. This suite is used for updates that many users will want to install on their systems before the next point release is made, such as updates to virus scanners and timezone data, or to resolve urgent problems not of a security nature. Debian announces when new packages are added to stable-updates on the debian-stable-announce mailing list.

Lifetime

There is one stable-updates suite for each Debian release. All packages from stable-updates will be included in a later point release. The stable-updates suite for each Debian release is removed once that release no longer receives updates.

Enabling the stable-updates suite

To install packages from stable-updates, you can add an entry to your sources.list. For example, to enable trixie-updates add: 

deb     http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main

For a ?Deb822-style debian.sources, add the suite to the existing list instead: 

Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: trixie trixie-updates
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

You should then run apt update, and then APT will consider packages in the stable-updates suite in the usual way. Note that if APT::Default-Release is set in your apt configuration, then, in order for automatic upgrades to work, some apt pinning needs to be added (see apt_preferences(5) for more information): 

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,n=trixie-updates
Pin-Priority: 990

History

The stable-updates concept was introduced in DebianSqueeze. It replaced the Volatile suite that was available for DebianLenny (see announcement).

See also

CategoryPermalink: mentioned in the Release notes for trixie