On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 05:44, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:08:52AM +0200, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > On Fre, 2003-04-04 at 00:44, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > So what's different from what we have now, apart from the name of the > > > external repository, > > > > experimental isn't external. It's integrated into the archive, BTS, ... > > ... an extra deb line ...
Just like yours now. > > > and the fact that having it in experimental would pull in a great deal > > > of other stuff? > > > > What would it pull in? I honestly can't think of anything except things > > like Sven's package, which couldn't get into the archive at all otherwise. > > apt-get dist-upgrade gives you everything that's been randomly dumped > into experimental. I expected that one coming up again... users who can't deal with experimental should use a stable backport, as always. > > > True, but seriously, it's quite incredibly mundane. > > > > Well, if you choose to discuss these things in private, fine, but don't > > complain about lack of participation then. > > I'll happy discuss the semantics of patch-merging with anyone who feels > like lending a hand. If you're that desperate to see how things turn > out. I'll Cc debian-x on discussions. Thanks, but I'm not desperate, just making suggestions how you might get more people participating. Am I the only one who sees the similarities between this situation and the XFree86 upstream situation? :\ -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
