On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:06:24PM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates to packages > between releases, and since we have the "proposed" updates, perhaps we could > add an "updates" area, in addition to the non-free, contrib, and main sections. > This would work VERY nicely for users who want to grab the latest patches. A > good example of why this would be good is the XFree 3.3.2 being released in > slink, and everyone wanting 3.3.3. Also, for potato, since it WILL be glibc 2.1 > based, I suspect a large number of people would want versions of XFree, gnome, > and other packages without having to upgrade their systems. By setting up an > extension to our current directory structure for updates, we make it VERY simple > for people to add these in. I THINK it might also make it easier to release > maintenance releases in this manner. Simply have all the updated packages in > the updates section. If apt and dselect do their jobs, it should grab the > proper NEWer version of the package. > Propose it on -Policy and be sure the cc' the ftpmasters. An issue to consider is manpower. Since most of the maintainers will up to Potato, who'll compile these new packages/updates for slink? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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