Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 01:39:23AM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Lalo Martins wrote:
>
> > Implementation:
> >
> > When the current Unstable (potato) is frozen, instead of
> > creating a new Unstable area, we will create the Pool and
> > populate it with a copy of potato; plus, create an empty Working
> > area and wait for maintainers to start populating it; plus,
>
> Hm... this is an oversight, I believe. The new working area should be
> populated by symlinks to the latest stable/frozen...
I don't think so. Let the maintainers decide what is
``working''. If they think that's the version in ``stable'',
then they can easily make things that way.
> > delete the "project/experimental" area. Of course the promotion
> > automating software must be working and tested by then.
>
> I'm not quite sure about the need to remove the project/experimental
> area... The working area wouldn't be updated quite as often as unstable is
> currently, so I'd probably use apt on the pool... and I wouldn't want to
> use apt on some software from the current project/experimental...
> (For example I'd gladly follow the current NMU series of dpkg, while I'm
> not so sure about the dpkg in project/experimental yet)
Read the proposal again. What you said just defeats the whole
point. You're not _supposed_ to run apt on pool unless you're
willing to live on the edge. It would be equivalent to running
apt on experimental.
Perhaps we can implement the long-promised feature of apt to
let the user choose one of many installable versions, so you
_can_ run apt on pool and choose the version of your liking.
But that's an entirely different point.
In simple words: if you want safe stuff, ``working''. If you're
willing to run risks, ``pool''. Period.
[]s,
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