Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)
Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> wrote:
> This is quite different. David said he wanted MAJOR packages included
> in the updates (e.g. X). You said you agreed, yet you talked of _only_
> minor apps being upgraded.
It's probably a good idea to make post-freeze major packages available,
but not as an official part of that debian release.
We already offer other unofficial supplements to debian (contrib comes
to mind), and such things are probably useful to a large number of
debian users.
However, it's almost guaranteed that such packages will be bad for
some systems. And package integration (where external packages have
dependencies on some part of the "major" package) isn't going to be all
that great.
This even would seem to codify existing practice:
(a) we tend to make recent good linux kernels available even though
related packages (lsof, pcmcia, ...) aren't ready for it.
(b) there are a lot of "aptable references" floating around, for stuff
that's not quite ready for prime time.
I'm just suggesting that there should be something between a and b.
--
Raul
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