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Re: PROPOSAL: "Staging Areas"



On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 08:34:44PM -0800, Jim Pick wrote:
[...]
>  * Have a facility for creating multiple parallel distributions to the
>    unstable distribution.  Each one of these parallel distributions would
>    be a "staging area" for assembling packages that would break
>    compatibility if they were uploaded directly to 'unstable'.

Nice idea! Just a minor nit, ...
 
>    When dinstall is run on the Incoming queue, it would put the packages
>    into:
> 
>      dists/staging-glib-1.1.20/....

... I guess it would reduce confusion for our FTP users if the staging
areas go under project/experimental .

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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