Hi All, CUT discussions at debconf10 and recent news of the birth of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) [1] show how valuable and unique Debian's rolling distribution (testing) is. But every freeze in the preparation to upcoming stable release in effect, eliminates 'testing' (and actually unstable... since experimental is not a complete distribution and we can't force users to use something with that name ;) ) until new stable sees the world. I wondered, why don't we have
[experimental/]unstable(sid)/testing(e.g squeeze)/stable *constantly* present and functioning all the time the same way. Then upon freeze we just copy the state of unstable -> pending testing(squeeze) -> frozen(squeeze, e.g together with a codename) and link new codename (e.g. wheezy) against testing. NB I am having some deja vu that 'frozen' used to be used explicitly in the archive... is that so? Then unstable/testing would roll further as usual, and pending->frozen according to the freeze schedule. This would enable CUTs, fulfill the ideas behind LMDE to have something rolling without hickups, and users of 'testing' (and unstable) would enjoy testing/unstable the way they usually do. I understand that it would require more work, but I think benefits would overweight the burden. But I cannot be first thinking about that, and I bet there were good reasons why such approach was not taken -- could anyone enlighten/point me to the shortcomings? [1] http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1527 -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]
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