On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:42:15PM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > There is a third possibility. Create an apt-get-able site at > javien.com to hold alpha and beta versions, and get "stable" > versions duploaded into Debian via sponsorship and/or new > maintainers. The trend I notice under these situations is that there is a visible separation between what is Debian and what is not. When this separation is present, the Debianites feel it is necessary to start packaging things themselves, straight from the CVS tree. The "unstable" and "testing" distributions are present for the EXPLICIT purpose of distributing beta *.deb's. Now, I want to point out a small detail in context. "unstable", "testing", and "stable" packages do not necessarily reflect the stability or lifecycle of the software contained within. I would agree that alpha software, in and of itself, should probably not make it in to the Debian archives... unless that is what you want. Beta software, on the other hand, has traditionally migrated into the unstable distribution of Debian. Take PostgreSQL for example. Version 7 made it in to unstable, even though the PostgreSQL people classified it's lifecycle as "beta" software. It all revolves around what you feel as a company and as developers would be acceptable software to distribute widely, and what you would prefer people use your own mirrors for. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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