Bug#594461: marked as done (apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed)

2014-02-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: > Well, after thinking a little bit more, I wonder if the case of users > installing testing *and then* wanting to track stable is really what > we want to address here. And I also wonder whether that happens often > (that someone installs testing and then sticks to stable

Re: Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin (gaud...@debian.org): > What's the rationale for adding t-p-u? IMO t-p-u is quite different That came from a remark by Russ Albery who mentioned that t-p-u packages do not receive enough testing to imagine that, during freezes, maintainers are more encouraged to use unst

Re: Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-27 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Excerpts from Christian PERRIER's message of Fre Aug 27 06:56:44 +0200 2010: > Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > > Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u? Anything can be > > uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is > > necessarily provided for a system

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u? Anything can be > uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is > necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there > and ends up tracking stable. Well, after think

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u?  Anything can be > uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is > necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there > and ends up tracking stab

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u? Anything can be uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there and ends up tracking stable. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:03:40AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Christian PERRIER] > > After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of > > activating "testing-proposed-updates" when users install testing, in > > a similar way that we currently propose activating volati

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian PERRIER] > After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of > activating "testing-proposed-updates" when users install testing, in > a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when > they install stable. One challenge that should be considered, is w

apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Package: apt-setup Severity: wishlist After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of activating "testing-proposed-updates" when users install testing, in a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when they install stable. So, sending this as a bug report ag