On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:22:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Freezing the installer to pull a beta has similar, though lesser effects > on development as does to feezing unstable and testing to prepare a > release of Debian. We avoid those problems by having separate distros -- either testing and unstable or frozen and unstable (or sometimes experimental) -- what are the problems with having a branch of d-i that's being beta'ed in testing, and one that's continuing to be developed in unstable? > The only point in making a beta release is if we have something that we > think might be a final release candidate, or that is a useful snapshot > to take to get more testing from our users. The others are: to make it possible to install Debian on recent hardware, to make it possible to install testing, and to ensure that the new development whether in d-i or in regular debs hasn't made it obscenely difficult to fix d-i so we can do working installs again. What're the exact problems here? They pretty much need to be dealt with this year, whatever happens with sarge. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> Don't assume I speak for anyone but myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Protect Open Source in Australia from over-reaching changes to IP law http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/ & http://www.linux.org.au/fta/
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