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When Do Debian Packages Receive Updates? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm aware of Debian's reputation for not having the most up-to-date software in its repository but have just noticed that Thunderbird is on its current version. Which makes me ask:

When does Debian update a package? And how does it decide when to?

I'm particularly interested in when it will make available the upcoming major release of GIMP to 3.0.

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[–] ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee @ARuy91305DGgrQiOZ6.linux@lemmy.ml I am guessing they have a short list of security-critical packages that they always keep up-to-date and at the latest versions, for things like SuDo and OpenSSL. Firefox, Chrome, and Thunderbird are so critical to end-user security, they probably have those on the list as well. But I am only guessing.

Usually if you want more recent versions of an application, you can install a FlatPak via FlatHub.

You can also install the Guix package manager on Debian, which has its own separate local repository that does not interfere with installed Debian packages. Guix usually has more recent packages, and it also makes it easy to install package dependencies and build the latest developer releases of applications from source code.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

You can also install the Guix package manager on Debian.

Guix is interesting. Do you know how it avoids clashing with Debian packages?