the second corrective update of the Debian 10 distribution, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes in the installer. The release contains 67 updates addressing stability issues and 49 updates addressing vulnerabilities.
Among the changes in Debian 10.1, we can note the update to the latest stable versions of the packages flatpak, gnome-shell, mariadb-10.3, mutter,
postfix, spf-engine, ublock-origin, and vanguards. The 'firefox-esr' package has been removed from the repository for the armel platform due to unsupported nodejs build dependencies.
To download and install "from scratch", installation media will be prepared in the coming hours for , as well as From Debian 10.2 onwards, systems installed previously and kept up to date receive the updates present in Debian 10.2 through the standard update installation system. Security issue fixes included in new Debian releases are available to users as updates are released via the security.debian.org service.
Additionally, the publication of the general resolution (GR) vote among Debian developers regarding . Three options are proposed for voting:
- Support for various init systems and the ability to boot Debian with init systems different from systemd.
To launch services, packages must include init scripts; supplying only systemd unit files without sysv init scripts is not acceptable. - Systemd remains the preferred choice, but there is an opportunity to support alternative init systems. Technologies like elogind, which allow applications tied to systemd to run in alternative environments, are considered important. Init files for alternative systems may be included in the packages.
- The primary focus is on systemd. Providing support for alternative init systems is not a priority, but maintainers may optionally include init scripts for such systems in the packages.
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