Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:41:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Not only you, Jerome and me were suggesting it in the past. However I am > afraid that the whole package movement machinery would have to be > rewritten to allow independent handling of the version in different > "testing" threes, plus

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Björn Stenberg [Thu, May 15 2003, 01:18:57AM]: > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > So let me make the following modest strawman proposal. Let us posit > > the existence of a new distribution, which for now I'll name > > "testing-x86". > > I suggested the same thing a few weeks ago, with little

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86"

2003-05-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > [...] and gave the impression that testing was more > stable/secure/preferable/whatever to unstable [...] That was my first impression too. > I don't say that what you say is wrong, just that people are not aware > of it, because we did tell them differently back then.

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86"

2003-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:51:42AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:14:20 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > If that's the case, then maybe the testing distribution has outlived > > its usefulness. But if people feel otherwise, then it would make > > sens

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > So let me make the following modest strawman proposal. Let us posit > the existence of a new distribution, which for now I'll name > "testing-x86". I suggested the same thing a few weeks ago, with little reaction. Nice to see someone else got the same idea. I'd volunteer t

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86"

2003-05-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 14 May 2003 09:14:20 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If that's the case, then maybe the testing distribution has outlived > its usefulness. But if people feel otherwise, then it would make > sense to think of ways in which testing might be able to be more > true to its o

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 09:14, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I've solved the problem for myself by just simply biting the bullet > and using unstable. I either have gotten lucky, or maintainers of > core packages have gotten much more careful about testing their > packages before uploading, so I haven't g

A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:22:05PM +0300, Chris Leishman wrote: > I care about security in testing, and I believe others do too. But I > don't think the process should be the same as with stable releases. > Testing should not become another psudo stable distributionit's for > testing. So