Subject: Package update

From: Fabien <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:22:24 +0200

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 ?

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

Thanks

Fabien

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From: Konstantin Kulikov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:51:48 +0300

Updates in releases shouldn't break your work, unless a security issue
directly affects it.

A lot depends on upstream really - if they do patch releases then just
push the latest one, if not - either push a bigger update or backport
just security patch.

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 07:57:55 +0200

On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 19:22:24 +0200

> 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.

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From: Fabien <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:02:02 +0200

Hi,

Thanks for your update

Seem clear to me now

Have a good day

Fabien