Re: handling beta versions
* Søren Boll Overgaard <boll@debian.org> wrote:
> s?, 2003-08-10 kl. 00:49 skrev Norbert Tretkowski:
> > This so called beta version runs very stable for me, but Ryan
> > replied that he does not want a beta version.
>
> Obviously, it is his right as the maintainer to refuse to include
> beta quality software in his package. But I guess you already knew
> that.
Yes, I know that, I just wondered why he had not replied to that
bugreport such a long time.
> > So, what to do now? Create a new package, called gqview1.3? I
> > wrote an ITP for gqview1.3, but after a discussion with Sebastien
> > Bacher on IRC I'm not sure if this is the best way.
>
> Since we are talking about beta quality software, I would suggest
> making an unofficial package available to interested parties for a
> while, before filing an ITP/including it in Debian proper.
I already created a gqview1.3 package, and it's possible to install it
together with gqview, so you can use both versions together.
Norbert
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