Re: The stable/testing/unstable branches not a solution ?
Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
Might I suggest a different approach. Currently a lot of the hold-ups
in debian are caused by desktop oriented packages. I think debian
should be split into two branches like this:
unstable
/ \
/ \
desktop-testing testing
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desktop-stable stable
I would do it differently. What about the following:
unstable base unstable add-ons
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testing base |
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stable base stable add-ons
The release would consist of a base system (or server system) with a
drastically reduced number of packages. The rest of the packages would
be assembled in parallel, going from unstable to stable as soon as
they're ready (i.e. not released all at once).
The add-ons would be compiled and assembled for the current stable base
release. That would also alleviate a lot of the "outdated" claims of the
current system. OpenOffice.org 1.2 or whatever would go into the
unstable add-on pool as soon as it is released, compiled and made to fit
with the current stable release, and once tested and certified to work
(no large bugs filed against it), it would go into stable add-ons, so
current stable release users could upgrade their OO.o.
Stable releases could also be done more quickly, since there would be
fewer packages making a release.
The server systems that require consistency in their environments would
simply use the base system, which would consist of the basic 'server'
packages.
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