Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> writes: > "latest" is illnamed. What do you expect to find in a branch thats > called debian/latest?
> Packaging for unstable? For experimental? What if both evolve in > parallel? Yes, some packages do that. We discussed this a lot during the drafting of DEP14, and the reason why the standard allows either convention is that it depends on the package and there were two separate perspectives with no consensus that one was universally better. Maintainers of some packages that upload to unstable except during freezes, during which they temporarily move into experimental, but consider it the same line of development, and then move back into unstable after the release preferred debian/latest since it matched how they thought about the line of development. People who maintained separate unstable and experimental lines of development preferred debian/unstable and debian/experimental. Personally, I use debian/unstable but do experimental development in that same branch if it's "targeting unstable," which is either the best or worst of both worlds, depending on your perspective. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
