On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-03-26, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > > That said I think those transition repositories are going to be more used > > (and thus tested) than experimental because they are targeted. Users who > > want to test the latest KDE or Gnome will happily add such a repository if > > its sole purpose is to contain updated packages for this software (and > > they should be able to report bugs already). > > But the big issue is here: what if the latest KDE SC requires you to remove > Gnome (or the other way around) when one of them kicks off a transition > of a common library. (libxklavier, poppler, ... )
Interesting point. This means that we should be able to have dependencies between transitions. So that the KDE and Gnome transitions can depend on the libxklavier transition. This means that rebuilds in the KDE/Gnome repositories would automatically use the libxklavier repository. But it might get complicated if the libxklavier transition can't be completed without using newer packages which require the KDE and/or Gnome transition. In that case, even if they are managed in 3 separate repositories they must be finished together and dumped in unstable at the same time (at least in theory). > Should users then choose or can there be some way to also have merged > repositories ? We should be able to keep separate repos and ask users to add all the relevant repos (those of interest and their dependencies). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100328084551.gf14...@rivendell
