Re: why package Signal in Debian?
On 17707 March 1977, Simon McVittie wrote:
Note that if a package exists in unstable, it will usually get copied
into Ubuntu 'universe' for their LTS releases, even if it is
unsuitable
for that purpose. experimental might be a better choice for that
reason.
No. That is no valid reason to not upload to unstable. Its a downstreams
problem to block it somehow if they dont want it in their
release/longterm support, but its not on Debian. Put it in unstable and
block it from testing, thats all fine. (One could think of, maybe, a
flag in the package control files somehow that shows that this is not
longterm supportable. Would make it easier to know about it/communicate
this fact)
fasttrack is an experiment, and is not currently well-integrated with
the main Debian archive: it doesn't have buildds (maintainers have to
do
binary uploads) and operates its own dak instance. But I think a lot
of
leaf packages like independent third-party applications (and
especially
games) might be better-served by being in fasttrack than by being part
of our stable releases: for that category of package, our users want a
version that will run correctly on a stable *OS*, but not necessarily
a
version of the leaf package that is, itself, long-term stable.
I could think of this being an official Debian part of the archive.
Should probably be discussed more, but to me it sounds a useful thing to
have aside backports.
--
bye, Joerg
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