Pierre Habouzit <madco...@madism.org> writes: > No what we want is probably to be attractive to developers, while > keeping our standards about the stable release, which is what really > matters. And to do that, well, what we need is to make working for > Debian easier. Not harder. rolling is making working for Debian harder, > hence is a bad proposal. Harder because it means people will have more > work for a package. Maintainers are (me included) often too lazy to > prepare Stable updates because it's a PITA to have to work on a 1-yo > version of the package. Why would they be more motivated to work on > testing packages?
> No we should focus instead on making packaging easier, not adding new > constraints, new goals. Here are a few thoughts on how to do that. [...] I don't think I'm convinced that rolling would make anything harder, and I don't want to support that part of Pierre's message, but I did want to say that the description laid out in this message about how PPAs could work and on using a unified VCS for that purpose sounds *awesome*, and I would love to use something like that. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87liyrrqtw....@windlord.stanford.edu
