Re: Kernel 2.0.34
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
> What is the significance of packages being in Incoming?
> Is it safe to d/l and use them from there, or do things in Incoming have
> further processing to undergo before being ready for use?
If I have it straight:
New packages are uploaded to /incoming by the package maintainer. Only
those on the maintainers list are allowed to upload. Another
person is in charge of the distribution and moves the packages to the
appropriate place for downloading. All this is done on master.debian.org
IIRC, which is not accessable for downloading by us mere mortals. Then it
gets mirrored by the other sites (not all have /incoming).
I expect that most, if not all packages uploaded for unstable end up
there in a few days. Stable and frozen have strict criteria which must be
met before anything is added (mainly bug-fixes are allowed).
Is it safe to install packages from unstable? Sometimes.
Bob
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