Hi, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > The new “rolling” suite > ----------------------- > This would be a pseudo-suite, like experimental. Except that while > experimental is built on top of unstable and filled manually by > maintainers, rolling would be built on top of testing and filled > semi-automatically. A rolling system would have typically 2 APT lines: > one for testing and one for rolling. > > The rolling suite would only exist for a subset of architectures (we > could start with powerpc, i386 and amd64), generated by picking up > packages from unstable. Typically it would be generated from an override > file that looks like: > source-package version > xserver-xorg-video-ati 1.2.3-4
I don't think this needs to be restricted to a subset of architectures when you allow "rolling" to pick different versions[1] for each arch. [1] including none if the required version is not available in unstable > A concrete example > ------------------ > Let’s imagine something that might happen soon (although of course we > will try hard for it not to happen): a new version of nautilus migrates > to testing, but it was missing a Breaks - it doesn’t work with the > version of gnome-settings-daemon in testing. The new > gnome-settings-daemon in unstable works, but it won’t migrate because > there is a libgnomekbd transition in progress, and gnome-screensaver > which is part of the transition doesn’t build on s390. > > In this case, we can just add libgnomekbd and gnome-settings-daemon to > the override file. Users of the rolling suite will have the two versions > of libgnomekbd available, and they can update their systems to a working > state. In this case, you could add the newer version to "rolling" for all architectures except s390. This way all users not using s390 could already upgrade to the new version. Ansgar -- 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/s2saaf2tqba....@bistromathics.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
