I don't think anyone has understood. I don't want a newer kernel, I want the current kernel to receive updates. Any updates would be good, especially security updates. I only mentioned the kernel because I don't know how to check how recent my packages are in debian except perhaps the kernel. My desktop that I use regularly has the released (after June 18th) version of stretch and updates are available to install weekly. It is the other computers I have, which I installed release candidate 3 on before June 18th, that have the problem. Sometimes I notice an update is available on my computer (post June 18th release) so I update packages, then I go to another computer with the pre-June 18th release candidate installed and no updates are available on those computers.
Lysander--please follow this link
https://www.debian.org/ and scroll down to "Security Advisories". You will then see packages that have updates for them. If you do
in a terminal and there haven't been any updates for weeks, then you have the same problem I have on some of my computers. And it is a problem, we should be getting security updates since they are being released for debian stretch.
dasein--Debian called the testing releases they posted before June 18th "release candidate". It was to differentiate the release after June 18th from the various versions they posted before June 18th. I downloaded "release candidate 3" (rc3), and installed it on several computers. Those computers are not getting updates when I check in terminal with the command
I just get the response that all packages are up to date. But I have another computer which has the stretch made available after June 18th, and that computer gets updates. If you don't believe me, maybe you will believe the debian website
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-ins ... 7/20170410 because that is the debian news release for the release candidate I have on some of my computers.