Re: An old idea, brought back to life
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Zooko wrote:
>
> > I think what you're missing is a change in release philosophy. As it
> > stands now, a release is an all-or-nothing proposition. Packages that
> > aren't ready delay the release of packages that have worked reliably for
> > months. What we could do instead is move packages into stable as they
> > are ready instead of waiting until all of unstable is ready. This is
> > especially useful for new packages, e.g., one that is released just
> > after a freeze, and which might otherwise wait a year to make it into
> > stable.
>
>
> Similarly, i want to run a "stable" release of Debian, but
> inevitably there is a small set of packages that i need to
> upgrade past the "stable" version (either because of bugs or
> because e.g. i want to start using newer features of a
> compiler).
>
>
> There is not, AFAIK, any obvious way that this should be done
> currently. It would be nice if i could specify per package
> whether i want that package to track the stable or unstable
> branches.
Now that is a fine idea. It makes a lot of sense because it means
that we can upgrade and downgrade a package meaningfully. It also
means that we can test the inclusion of a set of packages into the
release archive.
> (Note: "hold" isn't quite the solution, because it very much
> need security bugfixes even for all my "stable" packages.)
Cheers.
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