update policy for "technology preview" releases
Hi,
With Squeeze release, the concept of a "technology preview" release
was introduced. Does the update policy for changes that only affect
a "technology preview" release (kfreebsd-i386 or kfreebsd-amd64)
differ from the standard update policy for a stable release?
In particular, I'm wondering:
- Due to its "technology preview" status, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was
released with bugs and limitations in functionality that would be
considered Release-Critical on a stable release. In general (without
precluding the usual case-by-case analisys), should these bugs
be considered candidates for fixing in squeeze?
- In some cases, the limitations in functionality mean a particular
FreeBSD utility (freebsd-utils) is either crippled (disabled code) or missing.
Or perhaps it was disabled due to missing FreeBSD libraries (in freebsd-libs)
or kFreeBSD headers (kfreebsd-kernel-headers). This means that
fixing a problem that is considered release-critical could imply dragging
in a lot more changes than is usual for a bug of this severity. Taking
this into account, should the criteria for non-intrussiveness of changes
be relaxed in this context?
--
Robert Millan
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