Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:41:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Not only you, Jerome and me were suggesting it in the past. However I am > afraid that the whole package movement machinery would have to be > rewritten to allow independent handling of the version in different > "testing" threes, plus

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Björn Stenberg [Thu, May 15 2003, 01:18:57AM]: > Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > So let me make the following modest strawman proposal. Let us posit > > the existence of a new distribution, which for now I'll name > > "testing-x86". > > I suggested the same thing a few weeks ago, with little

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Björn Stenberg
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > So let me make the following modest strawman proposal. Let us posit > the existence of a new distribution, which for now I'll name > "testing-x86". I suggested the same thing a few weeks ago, with little reaction. Nice to see someone else got the same idea. I'd volunteer t

Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 09:14, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I've solved the problem for myself by just simply biting the bullet > and using unstable. I either have gotten lucky, or maintainers of > core packages have gotten much more careful about testing their > packages before uploading, so I haven't g

A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)

2003-05-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:22:05PM +0300, Chris Leishman wrote: > I care about security in testing, and I believe others do too. But I > don't think the process should be the same as with stable releases. > Testing should not become another psudo stable distributionit's for > testing. So