On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:44:23AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >More seriously, my point is: > >Is there any hope to one day, to adapt debian to the number of packages > >it bears and split release cycles between a core of 300-500 packages > >and having the rest of packages evolving at their own pace, following > >the core? > >syncing so much package around "release" schedule is becoming > >unrealistic. I'm waiting testing to become stable for so long. > > That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening already: > a lot of people run woody as "the stable core" and backports.org > as "the rest", so the idea certainly has merit.
I think it has some problems, though -- for instance, differences in versions of libc. If we supported building packages from source better (which I really think we should), this instantly becomes more practical. -- John
