On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:34:02PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > I see no reason for new packages to ever go into volatile. Such things > belong in backports.
You seem to have missed a very important ground of volatile: add new packages in a controled way when backporting code to the version in stable is far more difficult than guarantee a new version being stable enough to be updated. With all the policy added to it. -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.4.27|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend! --Barf (Spaceballs)