-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/06/11 07:06, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I still think this whole conversation is based on a false premise. I > think the original request originated from a belief that there is some > separable part of "core" Debian which could be held stable, and that > keeping that portion stable while using testing packages for everything > else would improve the stability of the system. >
Not exactly. I would like to get a stable build and runtime environment for the packages in main/testing. That doesn't mean that there are no newer versions of the same tools installed in parallel, as it is done today with gcc vs gcc-4.6, their runtime environments, and a lot of other packages. I would like to suggest to keep these core packages in a seperate repository, though. > I don't think either of those assumptions are true. There is a *lot* of > entanglement between new packages and new libraries that goes deep into > what one would call "core," and the few things that are so stable that > they wouldn't require upgrading to support testing packages also hardly > change from release to release and are really unlikely to break in > testing. > The core should be self-contained. I would guess you doubt that this is possible? Surely it would be difficult to know where to cut the line. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3tVvwACgkQUTlbRTxpHjem2QCfbU1V7Bbpcgpq9Gs4B8fZ6kcF QjkAnijWsY1yM6pYeFrPjt2X2/40g4OP =x0v5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/4ded5701.7020...@afaics.de
