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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.


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bye, Joerg


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