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Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze



On 06/25/2012 09:49 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote:
>> 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it manually.
> 
> This is usually the right answer: if version 1.0 is intended to go in
> the next Debian release, it should get as much testing as possible,
> which means it should be the default for unstable users.

Also it avoids that you have to go trough testing-proposed-updates for
fixes in wheezy - you upload to unstable, test there and if it works as
expected you ask the release team for a freeze exception to fix the
issues in wheezy.



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