Package: apt-setup Severity: wishlist After a (short) discussion in -devel, I came up with the proposal of activating "testing-proposed-updates" when users install testing, in a similar way that we currently propose activating volatile when they install stable. So, sending this as a bug report against apt-setup. I suggest this is done post-squeeze. Quoting Paul Wise (pabs@debian.org): > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote: > > Quoting Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org): > > > >> > Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”. > >> > >> Mostly because there isn't any large pool of systems using t-p-u the way > >> there is for unstable, so the aging process where we get testing in > >> unstable before migrating the package never happens. This means uploads > > > > I wonder whether we (in D-I) could add t-p-u to the list of proposed > > repositories when users install testing. We already propose security > > and volatile (defaulting to both added): the same mechanism could be > > made for t-p-u when users install testing. > > Sounds like a good idea to me. When they reject t-p-u you could either > add it commented out or with pinning such that it is not selected by > default but when packages from it are selected then they are kept > upgraded within it until the packages migrate to testing itself. AFAIK > to achieve that you need pinning priorities > 500 and < 1000. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] AANLkTinBF2Ktsg7ppwmv4CNz74WvhDj2vKFQ3n9wFkDn@mail.gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] AANLkTinBF2Ktsg7ppwmv4CNz74WvhDj2vKFQ3n9wFkDn@mail.gmail.com > > > > ** CRM114 Whitelisted by: WHITELIST ** > --
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