Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> (05/05/2011):
>> I personally don't think uploading packages to experimental before it >> is time for them to participate in transitions to testing and integrate >> with the rest of the next stable distribution is abuse at all. In fact >> I wish people would do it more often. > Being able to tell bug reporters “please check what happens with the X > stack in experimental” (which had more or less latest upstream release > candidates or releases), and closing with those versions; or forwarding > upstream if bugs are still there, is something I find very interesting > indeed. Yes, during the freeze I ran into trouble with OpenAFS because I had too many different streams that I wanted to test at the same time. I was using experimental for the upcoming 1.6 release, which I really wanted to have available in Debian for people to test but which is a huge technological change, and there were also new stable 1.4 releases that (in a rolling model) should have gone into unstable and then into rolling. But I was holding unstable free to handle point fixes for testing. We have a ton of archives right now, and I'm hesitant to even hint at adding another one, but it does sometimes feel like we have one too few. -- 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/87tyd9gi7i....@windlord.stanford.edu
