Re: FREEZE!
-- [ From: Lynn F Coker * EMC.Ver #3.2 ] --
Please remove me from your distribution list. I am not interested in this
Thanks.
Lynn
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Date: Tuesday, 25-Mar-97 12:23 PM
From: Andreas Jellinghaus \ Internet: (aj@dungeon.inka.de)
To: Guy Maor \ Internet: (maor@ece.utexas.edu)
cc: debian devel \ Internet: (debian-devel@lists.debian.org)
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Subject: Re: FREEZE!
Guy wrote :
[...]
> Distribution non-free -> hamm/non-free
> Distribution unstable, Section non-free -> hamm/non-free (alias of above)
> Distribution contrib -> hamm/contrib/
> Distribution unstable, Section contrib -> hamm/contrib/ (alias of above)
> Distribution unstable, Section * -> hamm/
a) we don't have a valid Distribution ("non-free" and "contrib" don't
say if a program belongs to unstable or stable), or
b) we don't have a valid Section ("non-free" or "contrib" is not a good
section IMO).
it's good, that we have seperated trees, but shouldn't we have
a) a third control field, indicating mainstream/contrib/non-free or
b) Distribution Paths like "unstable/non-free" ?
this way we would have a valid section (mail/news/...), a valid
distribtion (unstable/stable/...) and the information if the package is
non-free or contrib.
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a different topic :
what happend to the plans of having a "tested" distribution ?
most developers agreed, that a program should not get into stable, yust
because it was in unstable for (up to) 3 months.
we can change theese thing now, so next release (2.0) will have theese
changes. we should not drop theese topics for the next 3 months, or
discuss them for 3 months.
regards andreas
>
>
> Unlike rex's freeze, uploads will not be allowed to automatically
> enter frozen. All uploads to frozen will have to be manually
> confirmed.
>
> I have improved dinstall quite a bit so if necessary, it rejects your
> file immediately even if it's new or going into frozen or stable. So
> if dinstall appears to ignore it, it's actually processed it but is
> waiting on manual confirmation. It will warn you in the initial
> processing if it sees something suspicous (for example frozen w/o
> unstable).
>
> A final note. I trust you all already know this, but only bug fixes
> may go into frozen. No new packages, no major upstream changes.
> Also, listing frozen without listing unstable is almost definitely an
> error.
>
>
> Guy
>
>
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