Previously Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Eric:
> >Better yet, don't put packages into stable until we release. "Stable"
> >has a fairly well-defined meaning; I don't see much benefit from changing
> >it.
We already do that.
> I am new to debian-dev, why not release stable packages daily?
> Why in a s
Thank you for your answers.
Some misunderstood my idea, I don't want to remove
version numbers from packages.
Bernd:
>How do u call slink? "Old Stable"? :)
Yes, "old_stable" or "past"
Bernd:
>No i think it is not a bad idea to have a version number. The only question
>is if the Version number
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Vincent L. Mulhollon wrote:
> Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a
> release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back
> in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable.
T
"Vincent L. Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had a similar thought this weekend.
>
>Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a
>release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back
>in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstat
Previously Thomas Guettler wrote:
> Debian is evolving constantly, not in single steps.
True.
> But I am interested
> what you think about this crazy idea to remove
> version numbers (like debian2.2) from debian?
Won't work. Users demand a know really stable system, and with a dynamic
system we
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent L. Mulhollon) writes:
> Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a
> release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back
> in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable.
Ack! Can you imagine
Thomas Guettler wrote:
> But I am interested
> what you think about this crazy idea to remove
> version numbers (like debian2.2) from debian?
It's really crazy. Removing version numbers mean that the
dependency graph must be synchronized globally which is
impossible AFAIK. In addition to this, it
> A Debian package is either unstable, (testing) or stable.
> And everybody should use the package that fits his needs.
>
> Debian is evolving constantly, not in single steps.
>
> But I am interested
> what you think about this crazy idea to remove
> version numbers (like debian2.2) from debian?
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:05:58PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote:
> But I am interested
> what you think about this crazy idea to remove
> version numbers (like debian2.2) from debian?
How do u call slink? "Old Stable"? :)
No i think it is not a bad idea to have a version number. The only question
Redhat, Suse, Microsoft they need version numbers so that
they can announce their great new release of their operating
system. It is more or less marketing hype.
But Debian is different. It is a collection of several single
application on top of Linux/Hurd. And we don't need the
marketing hype of
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