Dear ftpmasters: Contrary to what this report suggests, I believe the current validity of 7 days for testing and unstable is extremely low and should be increased.
I have a laptop with testing which I use mostly on weekends. I have a partial mirror there, which I try to update as soon as I login into the system. My sources.list points to the local mirror and very often it happens that I want to install a package in the partial mirror before the mirror update has finised. Well, many times it happens that the system refuses to install anything because of expired Release file, sometimes by a day or two, sometimes by just a few hours or minutes. This is a real pain and it reminds me of "subscription" services or DRM stuff, like those games that fail to work if the player is not "online". Please consider increasing the expiration time. IMHO, an expiration time of 30 days or something alike would be a lot better than the current 7 days for testing and unstable. Moreover, one day, testing will become stable and the expiration date will probably be set to infinity. I think it would make sense if this happen not suddenly but gradually during the frozen state of the current testing distribution. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141031153118.GA29422@nuc
