Re: distinguish between "core" and "main"?
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On 06/06/11 07:06, Russ Allbery wrote:
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> I still think this whole conversation is based on a false premise. I
> think the original request originated from a belief that there is some
> separable part of "core" Debian which could be held stable, and that
> keeping that portion stable while using testing packages for everything
> else would improve the stability of the system.
>
Not exactly. I would like to get a stable build and runtime environment
for the packages in main/testing.
That doesn't mean that there are no newer versions of the same tools
installed in parallel, as it is done today with gcc vs gcc-4.6, their
runtime environments, and a lot of other packages.
I would like to suggest to keep these core packages in a seperate
repository, though.
> I don't think either of those assumptions are true. There is a *lot* of
> entanglement between new packages and new libraries that goes deep into
> what one would call "core," and the few things that are so stable that
> they wouldn't require upgrading to support testing packages also hardly
> change from release to release and are really unlikely to break in
> testing.
>
The core should be self-contained. I would guess you doubt that this
is possible?
Surely it would be difficult to know where to cut the line.
Regards
Harri
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