Re: Kaffe 1.0 beta debian package...
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:54:15PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
> > 2) This isn't what Experimental is for. There's no prohibition against alpha
> > or beta software in the main distribution. There are plenty of other
> > packages of software still under development in the distribution.
> >
> > Experimental is for when you want to release a new version of a package that
> > introduces severe changes that could break a working system. The increasing
> > tendency to put everything in Experimental because the package might (horrors)
> > have a bug in it is silly and counterproductive.
>
> It depends. You wouldn't put very early and buggy version of egcs into the
> main distribution, would you? Just innocent upgrade to not working Java
> compiler or JVM could break a lot of things. Production code suddenly stops
> working, ... Horrors. At least for me.
> I think you should realize that people use Debian not only as a hobby but for
> production.
>
FUD. Gregory is right. Just installing it breaks nothing. If you
use it, and it doesn´t fit your needs, remove the package and you
are allright again. I repeat: kaffee should be in the unstable main
distribution. Your personal disagreement has little place here.
There is no reason for Debian to discriminate kaffee.
> Letting it into the main distribution is wrong. It is supposed to provide JVM,
> but it doesn't.
If you care, report a bug. If it is really unusable, it can and
should certainly be removed from slink just before release.
This is what the unstable distribution is intended for.
Marcus
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