> It does seem like DEP-14 has thought of these complications. My concern is > that these should be rare so it seems nicer to optimize for the common > (simple) case and allow for the more complicated branch names when needed.
I need to backport quite some packages, and use often experimental to stage big packages new releases (think of numpy and matplotlib) so it is not a rare situation at all and it should be considered now that we are at the beginning of a new era and changes are easier -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi