On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 11:39:27AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 09:24:25AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > The proposal: > > Debian can provide a useful service by adding new, unsupported > mini-distributions (one per stable dist) for packages from unstable compiled > against (past and present) stable systems. It would exist merely as a > courtesy to users, and developers would be under no pressure to contribute > to it. unstable would remain the focus of development. > > The guidelines for uploading to this mini-dist are simple: don't upgrade > "system-level" packages (libraries, low-level utilities, standard shell > commands), and only add packages that are reasonably expected to work (have > lived in unstable for a bit without problems). Both of these criteria > require judgements, but in practice the answers are usually obvious, and we > can err on the side of caution. > > The distribution would be clearly labeled as unsupported, available only as > a courtesy to users. However, it should be available in the same way as > other distributions. (I don't know what to call it--perhaps > hamm-unsupported-updates?) > > I said this is light-weight. I really mean it--developers should be free to > ignore the new dists completely. However, inevitable it will take some > energies away from unstable, so I understand if people don't want to do it. > I do hope to convince you that it's the only solution to the "Debian is > obsolete" gripe that should be considered at the current time. It also has > the feature that, if successful, the project could scale up gradually. > > And I think users would appreciate it greatly. A good idea. Paul Seelig has make this service on his own computer at the time we have make hamm and a lot new packages need the new glib. Have we the resource? Who make it? to the system-level package I have a idea: no required and important package and a overridefile. This overridefile is mantained from the debian-maintainer. A maintainer can add his packages or remove it. With this criteria the system-level package aren't require judgements and the upload don't need a maintainer... Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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