Re: chromium-browser in Debian Sid
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:27:43AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On 06/30/2010 01:18 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> > On 06/30/2010 06:15 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> >> I just noticed that the chromium-browser package releases in Debian
> >> GNU/Linux unstable are synced version-for-version with the google-chrome
> >> beta package provided by the 3rd party Google Linux repository. Is this
> >> intentional?
> >
> > No, we follow the stable channel.
>
> Stable: 5.0.375.86
> Beta: 5.0.375.86
> Dev: 6.0.437.3
>
> For some reason, I thought the stable channel was still in v4.
>
> >> What's the rationale behind using the beta releases for
> >> chromium-browser in Debian rather than just using the nightlies?
> >
> > Should we use the Chromium nightly builds ? Really? :)
>
> Well, when you put it that way. :) Honestly, I don't think of Sid as a
> collection of stable packages. That's what I think about Lenny. I think
> of Sid as "the latest and greatest", regardless of version, and that's
> why I thought the nightlies would be appropriate here.
>
> In my mind's eye, I played out that Sid would get the nightlies and
> Squeeze would get the beta pushes. But, following the stable channel
> makes sense. I was just curious.
Sid is for what is eventually going in testing/squeeze, which ultimately
becomes stable. At some point, you have to have stable software in sid.
Mike
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