Re: Two proposals for a better Lenny (testing related).
Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>> Hm, I was tempted to think "yes, of course", but how about foo-snapshot
>> or bar-cvs? Why shouldn't they be in unstable, autobuilt
>
> I think that such packages are OK in unstable, but some might argue that
> they should go in experimental.
>
>> and available as Build-Depends for baz-bzr?
>
> That's dangerous. baz-bzr will be allowed to transition to testing
> (b-deps are not considered for testing transition), but won't be able to
> build from source in testing, which is RC.
No, I don't think that's a problem. Packages which are just regular
unreleased checkouts of some version control system should have a "not
for release" dummy RC bug anyway.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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