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Re: Where to put prospective d-i packages?



On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:01:38AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> As I was alone for one night in a Toulouse hotel, without any Internet
> access, and as the "choosers" (lang/country) currently reached a quite
> stable status, I took some time for working on some post-sarge
> developments for this part of the installer.
> 
> All recent activity on the "choosers" has shown that the split between
> language and country choosers has more bad consequences than good
> effects.
> 
> So, I began working on the merge of both to a "localechooser" package
> which could, in the future, replace languagechooser and countrychooser
> with a few more features (such as the possibility to choose between
> available locales for a given language+country combination).
> 
> This is highly prospective work which I won't work very hardly
> on...because the major goal ATM is focusing on the stable release.
> 
> However, I have reached a point where a "working" localechooser
> package exists, which I've been able to use as a replacement for
> language and countrychooser.
> 
> I want to keep track of this work so I need to commit it.
> 
> However, I think it would be better to have another place than
> "packages" for this just to avoid potential confusion to newcomers
> (and also to avoid annoying translators with not-yet-ready
> packages). Such a place could be used for all new developments and
> prospective packages.
> 
> So, before commiting my work, I'd like to have some input from other
> d-i contributors on this subject.
> 
> Branching could be a possibility, I'm not really sure if it would be
> appropriate in that case.

What about creating under packages a directory named prospective?
When the prospective package is mature enough,
it can move one directory up.


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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