On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:27:41 +0900, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:14:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:23:48 +0900, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:
>>
>> > And why not, instead of freezing unstable, make it build against
>> > testing, when er try to freeze testing ?
>>
>> Libraries. If you build against a library version that is no longer
>> in unstable, then you may have issues in testing when a new library
>> tries to migrate into testing -- cause nowhere would there be
>> packages built against the new library version.
> I don't see the point. If you build against what is in testing,
> there's no issue when migrating to testing. One particular issue
And you wouldn't ever be able to run unstable, so what's the
point of having it if people don't test unstable?
> would be when libraries change ABI, and new packages would need to
> be built against them, but still, at that particular time, the
> purpose being mainly to freeze testing, these ABI changes should be
> candidates for experimental.
In other words, stop all development dead, since experimental
is never ever used as a default ditribution by anyone sane.
>> Not to mention that unstable would become unviable as a
>> distribution -- the run time libs may not be the ones that are
>> needed by the packages in unstable.
> At that particular time, isn't frozen-testing the one that is
> supposed to be a distribution ?
If unstable is not a distribution, what the hell is the point
of having all the paraphernalia of unstable around? The whole point
of uploading to unstable is to have people test packages in
unstable.
> On top of the problems mentionned by the other replies, the fact
> that autobuilders have to be set up for t-p-u... can you remind me
> how long sarge has been planned for freeze ? and for how long
> autobuilders are required for alpha and mips for t-p-u ?
This is incorrect, t-p-u is indeed supported by buildds --
though this paragraph seems to be more like a rant than anything
else.
manoj
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