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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:57:55 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Fabien <box@fgautreau.net>
Cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Package update
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On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:22:24 +0200
Fabien <box@fgautreau.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a question relative to alpine package management
> 
> When a package is updated on main/community branch is it only security 
> update or could be feature update too ?

If you use edge repository it may be feature updates too.

For latest stable branch, currently v3.16, we do security fixes and bug
fixes for both main and community.

For older stable branches we only do security fixes, and for main
repository only. It happens that we do bug fixes (non-security
releated) for those branches too on request.

The policy is that we should never break anything in the stable
branches, so users should be confident that nothing breaks when they
update.

See https://www.alpinelinux.org/releases/

> I try to find the best way to update only for security update :)

We don't separate the security fixes from other bugfixes or updates,
unfortunately.

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Fabien