On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:52, Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> Chris writes: >> > experimental is unsupported on this list. >> >> That isn't true, though there may be few (if any) other people here >> using any given package therefrom. > > Please correct me as you see fit. > > AIUI, the experimental distribution is more of a staging area for > packages which are too unstable even for unstable. It can also be a > place where a developer may upload a package to get feedback from > interested testers. So, unless the developer reads this list then > unfortunately the message will probably be lost. > > I would guess a discussion through a bug report or with the maintainer > would be more appropriate. > > It seems like having "support" and "experimental" in the same sentence > could be seen as an oxymoron? > > I wouldn't reccommend that its ok to mix experimental, etc. willy nilly, > and then expect to get help when it all goes belly up.
<shug> Experimental works fine for me, generally. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1840f6971002230939o5bedd005o9d941b8cd4cef...@mail.gmail.com
