On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:46:29PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Francesco Paolo Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041004 19:40]: > > What we probably need is the infrastructure to support the volatile > > archive (buildd support and pools) and a general policy for those kind > > of updates. Program choices could be done later, as for point releases. > > I think the major difference between volatile and backports.org should > be that volatile makes also "releases", and between two releases, only > security fixes are done on the archive. This gives the benefit that it > doesn't require that often administrator action (and perhaps an staging > area where the newest things are in, and that is moved to stable once > everything is done). >
Yep, that was the idea behind the need of a policy and a RM. -- Francesco P. Lovergine