On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the significance of packages being in Incoming? > Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have > further processing to undergo before being ready for use?
If I have it straight: New packages are uploaded to /incoming by the package maintainer. Only those on the maintainers list are allowed to upload. Another person is in charge of the distribution and moves the packages to the appropriate place for downloading. All this is done on master.debian.org IIRC, which is not accessable for downloading by us mere mortals. Then it gets mirrored by the other sites (not all have /incoming). I expect that most, if not all packages uploaded for unstable end up there in a few days. Stable and frozen have strict criteria which must be met before anything is added (mainly bug-fixes are allowed). Is it safe to install packages from unstable? Sometimes. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
