Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)
David Bristel <targon@targonia.com> writes:
> This is why I suggested the new area, apart from main, non-free, and
> contrib. People who want the updates should have a nice, easily
> accessable place to find these packages. From a system
> administration standpoint, it's nice to know EXACTLY where to go to
> update the entire distribution automatically(via apt-get), if
> there's been a major package release since the dist went frozen. If
> the developer wants to make a slink version, because of either
> personal reasons, or because of requests, then, once the new
> package(s) have been tested, let them be added into "updates".
Um, we already have this. It's called 'stable-updates' or
'proposed-updates'. In sources.list speak:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
Maybe this should be publicized more. It's pretty much a "buyer
beware" area. If anyone uploads to "stable", it gets moved into
there.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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