Bug#27906: PROPOSED] Binary-only NMU's
Hi,
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
Ian> *we MUST be able to have more than one source version in our archive*.
Ian> For me, this follows from
Ian> (a) both our own commitment to distribute source code and the GPL
Ian> when combined with
Ian> (b) the fact of our loosely coupled development model which is
Ian> essential in a project as large as Debian.
Ian> As far as I'm concerned this leaves undecided only the following
Ian> question: how can we best organise this and what should the result
Ian> look like ? So far we have seen two proposals:
Ian> i. Simply have them side by side, with some kind of way of making
Ian> obsolete sources disappear eventually
Ian> ii. Some arrangement with .nmu files
Actually, there was a third: there has been a proposal gaining
strength about doing away with freeze/fix/release processes. Instead,
there is a set of pools of packages. There is an unstable pool, and
there is a stable pool (with staging areas for movement of packages
from unstable to stable, as packages sometimes need to move in
lockstep).
Packages in unstable which have no bugs above normal (this can
be changed) and have been in unstable for a period of time, move into
the staging area, and if there are no lintian errors and all
dependencies are satified in the staging are or the stable pool, they
are moved into the stable pool.
More than one version is kept in the stable pool, in case the
newly promoted package develops a bug under scrutiny.
Periodically, the stable pool, which has no packages with bugs
of higher importance than normal, is frozen and released. Since there
should be no release critical bugs at any rate in the stable pool,
releases can be regular, and shall not slip.
The proposal went into greater detail, and was better
formulated than this message, which is off the top of my head.
The full proposals were discussed in debian-devel in August.
Subject: Re: Archive Restructuring -- The dists/ Hierarchy
From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
I can repost if asked.
manoj
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