Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-30 Thread Yann Dirson
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Falling back to an old versions of a package is a useful option when a > release-critical bug that does not have a ready fix is found. As such, > it would be convenient to retain a number of versions of a package, > beyond the current stable, prerelease and unstable v

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Marcelo E. Magallon" wrote: >>Secondly, Could this be made available on a web page somewhere? > >Yes, please, Developer's Corner and/or DDP's pages seems like good places >to gather all this documents that have been popping like mushrooms in the >past week. If you want something pu

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Buddha" == Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Buddha> [I'm not certain which list would be better, so I'm foolishly using both> I am setting the followups to debian-policy. Buddha> [Release management preface deleted] Buddha> When Anthony Towns first mentioned that

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marcelo> [ Manoj, do you want this on debian-policy or debian-devel? Marcelo> The ammount of crossposting lately is making those lists Marcelo> even harder to read ] If I have to choose, I would say this is to determ

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-30 Thread Buddha Buck
[I'm not certain which list would be better, so I'm foolishly using both] Manoj said: > Hi, > > This is all very well, but I would like to clarify why this is > important; I think the benefits and procedures should be stated up > fron. Please consider adding this to the porosal as an pre

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-29 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ Manoj, do you want this on debian-policy or debian-devel? The ammount of crossposting lately is making those lists even harder to read ] > Secondly, Could this be made available on a web page somewhere? Yes, please, Developer's Corner and/or DDP's pages seems like good places to gather

Re: Archive Restructuring - Package Pool

1998-07-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is all very well, but I would like to clarify why this is important; I think the benefits and procedures should be stated up fron. Please consider adding this to the porosal as an preface or motivation section; after all this is mostly your document, with additions from me (so