Re: splitting experimental by arch?
Christian Schwarz writes:
> However, we might consider having a few packages in unstable which will
> not be included in the `frozen' distribution automatically, for example,
> if the upstream maintainers don't want us to include it in a stable Debian
> release.
GNU gettext may be a perfect example, as it is in experimental just
because the upstream maintainer AFAIK doesn't wish it to be part of a
distribution.
Maybe it would be simpler to have another level "between" unstable and
experimental, with:
* stable: you know what.
* unstable: things that will be automatically promoted the next stable
release, ie. they are mostly based on stable upstream.
* ongoing-work: things that may be one day promoted to unstable, but
cannot in their present state because the upstream is not ready for
this.
Candidates are:
- Packages that are in a shape likely to change, and not widely
accepted (eg: gettext)
- "for comment" packages, as Jim calls them (eg: dtm, dhelp...)
- programs that have just changed in a major way (Manoj told about the
future of cvs-buildpackage, Jim about reimplementations).
* experimental: things that may break something (ie. alpha)
The split between ongoing-work and experimental has been thought of,
but ongoing-work should IMHO be distinct from unstable to make things
clear.
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