On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 17:14 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 12.01.2013 16:11, Svante Signell wrote: > > Or to say it differently: > > experimental being really for new stuff > > unstable unfrozen always: > > - stable+1 if no freeze > > - stable+2 if in freeze > > - and stable+1=unstable at the freeze time. > > This is similar to what used to happen before the testing suite existed > - unstable was copied to "frozen" and that was beaten in to shape until > it was suitable for release. "testing" was designed and implemented by > the Release Manager of the time to try and avoid the issues created by > that situation. > > Please do some research on why things exist before suggesting getting > rid of them, particularly in favour of thing they replaced. (The > debian-devel post explaining the introduction of testing really isn't > that difficult to find.)
Of course there was a reason for introducing testing. And I did not propose it to go away either. It should stay for packages marked as being part of unstable at freeze time. Probably a separate repo for frozen unstable is needed. -- 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/1358013304.4363.136.ca...@amd64.my.own.domain
