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Re: Criteria for experimental uploads



Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com> writes:

> The reasoning behind dpkg-mountable going into experimental was
> that, if it went wrong, it could do some very obscure things to
> peoples' systems

Never the less, it should go into unstable and have a prominent
warning in the description.  I hardly think users are installing new
packages willy-nilly.

> Either create an `alpha' distribution, or similar, containing things
> which people want to have tested before they `go public',

We have one of these.  It's called `unstable'.


Guy


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