On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Luke-Jr <l...@dashjr.org> wrote: > I agree with Scott's assessment, although I would note that Debian *does* have > a suite that addresses the needs of Bitcoin: stable-updates. Mandatory > protocol rule changes would seem to fall within the "broken by the flow of > time" category. Thoughts?
I think this is the way to go once bitcoin version "1.0" (or the equivalent) is released. It requires users to enable the stable-updates repository, but we can put a note in the description with a hint to do that. It may be confusing for some users to get a message (or see a post on a forum) that says, "You MUST upgrade to version 1.6!" then wonder why Debian is distributing version 1.5, even if it is a patched version 1.5. Ideally, once it is stable enough for distribution, I'd like to see someone from upstream (Matt Corallo?) take control of the bitcoind/bitcoin-qt packages. DDs on the packaging team can sponsor uploads and make sure things are done in a policy compliant way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
