Re: experimental codename
Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:
> John Hasler writes:
>
>> gram writes:
>>> Every new package, or every new upload?
>>
>> Perhaps every upload to Unstable should go to Experimental as well unless
>> Experimental already has a newer package (or the same one), but uploads to
>> Experimental should go to Experimental only. Nothing would ever move from
>> Experimental to any other distribution automatically.
>
> Why have this duplication? At least for my limited use of the
> experimental distribution, apt's normal preference behavior (prefer
> unstable over experimental, but don't downgrade an installed package)
> is useful and stays out of the way. At least to me, "unstable" means
> a set of generally useful packages and "experimental" means a set of
> less stable packages useful if you want to beta-test future releases.
Correct.
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