Re: about volatile.d.o/n

[Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:34:02PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 
> I see no reason for new packages to ever go into volatile.  Such things
> belong in backports.

You seem to have missed a very important ground of volatile: add new packages
in a controled way when backporting code to the version in stable is far more
difficult than guarantee a new version being stable enough to be updated. With
all the policy added to it.

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