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Re: Bug#263553: experimental not described on the release page



Frank Lichtenheld schrieb:

Hmm, maybe we want it to only described on pages clearly intended
for developers (the task, not the status) only? No opinion on that
yet but it could be one reason there isn't such a description yet.

/distrib/packages also hasn't a link to the experimental package
pages and that _is_ intentional.

Why?
Information should be as easy accessable as possible.
The /distrib/packages is the page, which I use mostly - with "Search package directories" "Distribution: any". For me, the most important information is, which version of a package is in which distribution, before I decide to install it from stable, testing or (sometimes) from unstable. If a newer version is in experimental, is a very important information.

From the view of usability, this is one of the things, that makes the structure of debian-web so confusing. It's the lack of a simple understandable information architecture. If there are distributions in _reality_ like stable, testing, unstable, experimental (and "archived" maybe), then support all of them (nearly) in the same way in an user interface.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer




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