On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:11:12AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > knghtbrd@debian.org (Joseph Carter) writes: > > > Same principle as the package pool applies: It's easier to make a few > > packages stable for release with everything else that is already stable > > than it is to hack everything and then call a halt to development while > > people work to stabilize the work that's been done. > > > This can't be stated often enough! I'm eagerly awaiting the > implmentation of package pools. > > > How many developers > > are already running Woody, regardless of Potato's status? I know I am. > > > Just an AOL on my part, although i''m more or less running potato and > a half with selected apps from woody. From the perspective of someone > who uses his tools it's not the distribution in itself that needs to > be up to date but the applications one typically uses. I wouldn't > mind still running slink if only some of the applications important > for my work would have been updated once in a while. This is what i was getting at with the mention of just updating the packages alot of people would consider important. This might be a new gcc(if its stable), gnome stuff, kde stuff, a newer version of X (i dont mean 4.0, i mean like if 3.3.7 were released), maybee apache or pro-ftpd, those kinds of things. I realize that these maybee require more work testing than the rest, but a small partial freeze will go alot faster on a 30-40 package update, than on a 4000 package update. > > I hope package pools will provide a means to constantly upgrade a > stable potato with up to date packages without having to rely on an > unstable tree or compiling from sources oneself. > > Thanks, P. *8^) > -- > ------------ Paul Seelig <pseelig@mail.uni-mainz.de> ------------- > African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies > Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany > ------------------- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de -------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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