Re: woody: Remaining RC bugs in base system
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:07:39 +0100
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> [20020130 09:09]:
> > Releasing is important. Maintaining forward progress in unstable is
> > important. Having to pick one of the two at any given moment is frustrating,
> > at best.
>
> What's wrong with using experimental?
lack of documentation?
I am afraid it was very difficult for me to find experimental's repository
developer's reference, for example, mentions experimental but doesn'
say where it is located... then a developer think "ok, I upload to
experimental and nobody will be able to find the package, not even
me" =)
what about something like this?:
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--- developers-reference.sgml.old Wed Jan 30 16:03:55 2002
+++ developers-reference.sgml Wed Jan 30 16:10:31 2002
@@ -815,6 +815,17 @@
from <em>unstable</em> are expected to propagate to <em>testing</em> and
thus to <em>stable</em>.
<p>
+The experimental packages go into the pool and their aptable archive is
+at <url
+id="http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/"
+name="http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/">.
+You can use them by adding the following to your
+<file>/etc/apt/sources.list</file>:
+<example>
+deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/ experimental main contrib non-free
+deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/ experimental main contrib non-free
+</example>
+ <p>
New software which isn't likely to damage your system can go directly into
<em>unstable</em>.
<p>
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