From: Philip Couling <couling@gmail.com>
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Subject: What's the definition of stable?
Message-Id: <C8402E24-B03E-4D8D-A907-57DE4C5E8865@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:58:25 +0000
To: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org

This might seem a dumb question, but I=E2=80=99m looking for a =
definitive answer regarding package =E2=80=9Cstability=E2=80=9D in the =
main repositories (main, community).  What I=E2=80=99m looking for =
specifically is whether or not Alpine will release new versions of =
stable libraries to old =E2=80=9Cstable=E2=80=9D releases.

This question is effectively split two ways:
Do these packages receive security updates? - I assume they do.
Will entirely new versions of packages get released?

So if I start with alpine 3.12 and =E2=80=9Capk add python3 =
py3-numpy=E2=80=9D, is it safe to assume that I will always get the same =
version of =E2=80=9Cnumpy" (notwithstanding security fixes)?

Thanks=