Hi, Le 26/08/10 01:20, Carsten Hey a écrit : > * Russ Allbery [2010-08-25 01:13 -0700]: >> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> writes: >>> Would it be possible (at one point) to “fix” it and stop using >>> unstable as t-p-u and experimental as unstable when freeze is in >>> action? >> >> We could try to get lots of people who normally use unstable to >> instead test testing plus t-p-u, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to >> do so. I for example don't want to switch my unstable systems to >> testing plus t-p-u for a variety of reasons. > > I think this point is important, people will not switch to the > distribution we think they should use in specific release phases. This > is also the reason why I don't think things like adding another > distribution between stable and testing or testing and unstable would > have the desired effect. Instead we should ensure that what we have > (testing and unstable) contains what we want most of our non-stable > users to use and test. I second that. I think that during freeze, packages meant for the release should still go through unstable for their 10-day testing period. Making it happen is perhaps not extremely complex. The idea is that, as mentioned already, - updates meant for testing are uploaded in unstable; - updates not meant for testing go somewhere else (experimental or u-p-u or next-unstable or whathever); - brand new packages can go anywhere, they won't migrate anyway, but I would suggest "u-p-u" as well. During the freeze, transitions from unstable to testing would work the way it currently works from t-p-u to testing. In order to avoid erroneous uploads to unstable, a special key in the .dsc file could be mandated. Uploads to unstable missing this key could go directly to u-p-u, with a clear message informing the uploader. u-p-u could be marked noauto, like backports: unstable + u-p-u users would then be able to install the latest upstream of specific software while still using and testing most of the packages meant for the release. Best regards, Thibaut.
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