Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (relay3-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.195]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54B9B7810B2 for <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (Authenticated sender: contact@fgautreau.net) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6F41F60006; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <56984b7f-9d91-4371-4730-038ca2482ba6@fgautreau.net> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:02:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 Subject: Re: Package update Content-Language: fr To: Natanael Copa Cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org References: <20220822075755.3130d76c@ncopa-desktop.lan> From: Fabien In-Reply-To: <20220822075755.3130d76c@ncopa-desktop.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, Thanks for your update Seem clear to me now Have a good day Fabien Le 22/08/2022 à 07:57, Natanael Copa a écrit : > On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:22:24 +0200 > Fabien 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