Re: Upcoming Debian Releases
On 8 Jan 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
>
> > I've been asking for the division of non-free and contrib into
> > unstable/stable subsections for two months. What's the status of
> > this ?
>
> It's bit more work than a wave of my magic wand. I posted several
> times if anybody had any suggestions, but was ignored:
>
> How would the .changes file indicate that a package would go in the
> stable or unstable section on non-free?
Distribution: non-free-unstable
> How to organize the ftp
> hierarchy in a manner that is backwards compatible, does not involve
> moving files around, and still relatively simple? I've been loathe to
> do this because of the added complexity.
"freeze" non-free with the next release and start a new
non-free-unstable. The rest could just follow the current debian
release scheme. This would still keep non-free independant of
the main distribution but keep a "synchronized" unsupported
distribution called non-free available. There wouldn't need to
be a non-free-1.x or anything, just non-free and
non-free-unstable. The non-free would coinside with the current
"stable" release. Coordination of non-free packages at freeze
time would mean making sure nothing in the current wait queue for
non-free is depending on the new (laying in wait?) unstable-to-be.
That should keep things backward compatable and not kill any
mirrors.
This would allow packages in non-free to depend on packages in
stable; and packages in non-free-unstable could depend on
packages in unstable. We could do the same for contrib.
A little painful, but I can't think of a better way at the
moment.
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan
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