Re: Idea: Debian Release Sections

2000-07-07 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Pimlott wrote: > Basically I only see this as making life more difficult by having > packages jump between different groups when their releasing patterns > change and having criterions to decide when a package has officially > changed from fast to slow. This makes both hassle for main

Re: Idea: Debian Release Sections

2000-07-07 Thread Chris Pimlott
Dividing packages by release schedule is not a great idea. Many packages don't fall neatly into release schedule categories. A normally "slow" release package may have many releases as it builds to a new major version or experiences rapid bug fixes cause by a major overhaul, or a normall

Idea: Debian Release Sections

2000-07-05 Thread Paul J Thompson
I started this conversation on Debian-Devel, got little response, and then was told that it belonged on Debian-Project. So, I decided to bring up my idea here. In my previous email (Debian-Devel, subject "Debian Critical Mass") I commented on how I believe that Debian has arrived at somewhat of a