Christian Perrier dijo [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:40:12AM +0100]: > It could be by promoting experimental a different way we are doing it > right now...or by adding an intermediate stage between unstable and > experimental. For that latter case, I somewhat fear the (human) resource > problem we would end up with as it would need more people to take care > of the whole mess^W organization. > > What I wanted to add also is that the "problem" pointed here does not > only affect desktop environments as most contributors pointed. For > instance, the samba packaging team is currently facing an interesting > dilemna: > (...) > So, where could we upload up-to-date 3.2.* packages for the benefit of > our users who prefer having the last bug fix releases? > > We can't do it in experimental as 3.3 is already using it. > > When lenny is released, backports.org is the appropriate place for > this, imho. However, lenny-backports will only open when lenny is > released and should indeed have packages backported from unstable at > that moment. For us, that will be 3.3.* > > So, I had another "idea": open <foo>-backports at the moment <foo> is > frozen so that maintainers can upload the latest bleeding edge > versions of their packages there, when using experimental is not > possible for some reasons.
I like and subscribe to your idea. I feel that many of us are actually bitten by that same problem - even if we have upstreams that understand the process of releasing Debian, it is hard to expect them to work with the madness associated with long freezes. And I do not think we will be able to avoid long freezes in the future, just because of the scale we work with - We might be able to somehow reduce the length, but not as much as to meet a lively upstream's fantasy :) -- Gunnar Wolf - gw...@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
