Scott James Remnant wrote:
Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g.,
buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source
packages with the tools in stable. Note, I said "manipulate", not
"build".
Why can't you just install the unstable ones?
For comparison, the unstable versions of both dak and debbugs *trail*
the versions actually used on ftp-master.d.o and bugs.d.o. The recent
debootstrap changes are a pretty strong encouragement to use a newer
version of apt on ftp-master than is currently in unstable (or
experimental for that matter) to release etch, too.
For core infrastructure, running the latest working version just makes
sense; whether it's released as stable or not.
The only reason to delay using features until they're in stable is for
users' benefit: eg, if something stops you being able to upgrade to etch
from sarge, that would suck.
I can't see any particular reason to delay the new source format.
Reasons to speed it up, otoh...
Cheers,
aj
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