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Re: Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)



On Jo, 16 mai 13, 10:52:05, Neil McGovern wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:29:11AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Some upstreams have a testing branch of there software and a
> > release branch.  It's sometimes useful to have people test the
> > version in from the testing branch, and having it available in
> > Debian makes it easier for people to test it.
> 
> A couple of options seem to present itself (under current scheme) - 
> a) upload to experimental and publically call for testing
> b) upload to unstable and file an RC bug yourself so it doesn't migrate
> c) upload to unstable, wait for migration, then file an RC bug so we
> don't release with it.

d) maintain a separate -unstable package (see wine and wine-unstable), 
use a), b) or c) as apropiate if the package is not suitable for a 
stable release.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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