Bastian Venthur wrote: > Didier Raboud schrieb: >> Bastian Venthur wrote: >>> Something like that, I don't really care about the name. The important >>> thing is, that unstable is never frozen, but temporarily disconnected >>> from the unstable > testing > stable flow. >>> >>> Another way to see it is that unstable is constantly flowing and we're >>> just forking a stable distribution from it from time to time. >> >> Isn't there a need for a freeze+stabilisation time (~ a year for Lenny…) >> in which updates occur in 2 stages to finalize and "stable"ize one >> particular snapshot ? > > I'm not sure what you're asking but by temporarily insterting a > $frozen-something between unstable and testing, we basically have the > same flow as currently just with the benefit of a living unstable. I > don't see the problem: > > currently during the freeze: > > unstable (frozen) > testing > stable > > new: > > unstable || unstable (frozen) > testing > stable
That's http://wiki.debian.org/AddAnotherRepositoryBetweenUnstableAndTesting Which needs update and clarification… >> Note that forking+stable'izing Sid is what Ubuntu does every six months. > > Is that important? No. But if Debian was to adopt the same Release Process as Ubuntu, why not joining forces, entirely ? I ''guess'' that it wouldn't be the "fun in Debian"… > Unstable is frozen for nearly 1/2 year now, that's a problem we should try > to solve if we don't want to degrade ourselves to a server-only > distribution. 100% ACK. My feeling is that a release per sub-system [0] could be viable and could make Debian a really dynamic and up to date distro, but adding a repository between Sid and Testing is a good way to go. Best regards, OdyX [0] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePerSubsystem -- Swisslinux.org − Le carrefour GNU/Linux en Suisse − http://www.swisslinux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
