Re: uploading a new version, when there's still one in unstable
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:09:34PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:56:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The former: version 1.3 won't be considered for testing, and 1.4 will
> > have to wait for two weeks (or less if you use urgency > low).
> Anyone think this is bad?
Nope, no one does. No, really, I surveyed everyone on the planet just
last night. Everyone thinks it rocks. I'm pretty tired now actually,
and I'm _damn_ sick of people who let their dogs in their front yards.
Anyway, it's not that it's ideal, it's just that there aren't any adequate
alternatives: once a new upload gets made, no one continues using the
old one, and it's generally impossible to tell if it's worth considering
it for testing or not. There could've been unreported bugs that the
maintainer discovered and uploaded a fix for, or bugs that it takes a
few days for people to notice, or interactions with other software, or
anything. Trying to track that for two versions (testing and unstable)
is hard enough, doing it for multiple versions doesn't seem feasible.
If you're really uploading once a week, all you need to do is decide that
one particular version is suitable for release, and make the next week's
upload/s to your public_html/ directory on people.debian.org instead
(or experimental, or somewhere else). If you're really obsessive, you
might want to upload a second package like mozilla-snapshot, that you
can update regularly.
Basically: if you're continually doing development on some package,
you should aim to stop every few months and spend a couple of weeks
making a version of the package that's suitable for release, leaving
it alone for a while so that particular version can be tested and found
to actually work as well as you think it does, and, once it's made it's
way into testing, go on your way again.
Cheers,
aj
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