Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u? Anything can be uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there and ends up tracking stable. Well, after thinking

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: Well, after thinking a little bit more, I wonder if the case of users installing testing *and then* wanting to track stable is really what we want to address here. And I also wonder whether that happens often (that someone installs testing and then sticks to stable

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Package: apt-setup Severity: wishlist After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of activating testing-proposed-updates when users install testing, in a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when they install stable. So, sending this as a bug report

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian PERRIER] After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of activating testing-proposed-updates when users install testing, in a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when they install stable. One challenge that should be considered, is what

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:03:40AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Christian PERRIER] After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of activating testing-proposed-updates when users install testing, in a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u? Anything can be uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there and ends up tracking stable. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#594461: apt-setup: Should propose using t-p-u when testing is installed

2010-08-26 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello, On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: Does it really make sense for users to use t-p-u?  Anything can be uploaded there, rejected by the release team, and no upgrade path is necessarily provided for a system that installed a package from there and ends up