On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:48:54AM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-04-30, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> People try out new things in experimental, and it seems to work mostly > >> well to get new stuff migrated from there via unstable to testing once > >> the release is done (except that we try to not do too many things in > >> parallel - and things have improved within the recent years). > > No, experimental is not satisfying: > > 1/ packages in experimental are not correctly tested, the userbase is too > > small. > > 2/ migrating from experimental to unstable requires source uploads and all > > the rebuildds (with the accompanying delays for slow arches) > > So here this is a problem while for frozen you're arguing that we could easily > do sourceful uploads and just wait for the builds to trickle in? > > > 3/ experimental is not meant for daily usage, so it's doesn't help users > > who really want a rolling release > > It's not that it isn't meant. Of course we could also look at overlay > solutions. (That said, while I'm very happy about mozilla.debian.net, I > somehow still feel that those packages should be added in a co-installable way > into some official suites. But then you get back to the "we don't support > all architectures yet" department, I presume.)
Co-installable would be hell. Especially with the new mozilla release schedule. That being said, it would be really helpful to be able to get buildds to build the mozilla.d.n packages... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110430101603.gb25...@glandium.org
