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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?:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- 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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[]s!

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