Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

[Bastian Venthur <venthur@debian.org>]

Didier Raboud schrieb:
> Bastian Venthur wrote:
>> What I'd like to see is a solution where unstable is *never* frozen,
>> maybe by replacing the current frozen unstable with something temporary
>> and putting it between unstable and testing, where all the fixes go
>> while all the new stuff can still go into unstable but cannot enter the
>> next step while we're in the freeze:
>>
>> Normal:
>>
>> experimental || unstable > testing > stable
>>
>> Freeze:
>>
>> experimental || unstable || $something frozen > testing > stable
>>
>> Basicly we already have this with:
>>
>>             experimental || unstable > testing > stable
> 
> Something like
> 
>         experimental || unstable-be || unstable-pt > testing >> stable
> 
> with: 
> 
> experimental    Real sandbox/playground/if-your-box-breaks-its-your-own-fault
> unstable-be     Bleeding-Edge   Constantly updated to "newest upstream"
> unstable-pt     Pre-Testing     Last "considered long-time and stable" upstream
>                                 Bug-fixing, actual "unstable"
> testing         as actually     Future Stable
> 
> ?

Something like that, I don't really care about the name. The important
thing is, that unstable is never frozen, but temporarily disconnected
from the unstable > testing > stable flow.

Another way to see it is that unstable is constantly flowing and we're
just forking a stable distribution from it from time to time.


Cheers,

Bastian

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