On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 at 20:40:43 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> My normal use of experimental does not involve maintaining unstable and
> experimental branches simultaneously.
...
> I know some people do more of a two-branch setup
One common reason to need to use experimental more actively is if your
upstream has a relatively long-running "latest feature development"
branch that is explicitly not suitable to be in a stable release, such
as dbus 1.odd.z, GNOME 3.odd.z, and Linux/Xorg/Mesa release candidates.
dbus and GNOME both use the versioning scheme popularized by pre-2.6
Linux kernels, where version x.even.z is considered stable and will
receive security fixes, but version x.odd.z is not security-supported,
and is only suitable for use in contexts where you can guarantee to
replace it with the next stable branch as soon as it becomes available.
smcv
