Bug#90511: proposal] addressing objections (re: disallow multi-distribution uploads)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:44:17AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> There is not technical reason
> >> for not building uploads to stable unstable twice in buildd either.
>
> Marcus> I think this is not true. What is meant by this? It means
> Marcus> building the same package twice, with the same version
> Marcus> number, but the source (debian/changelog) modified to read
> Marcus> "stable" and "unstable" each once.
>
> Umm. No. If I have two buildd's, one for unstable, and one for
> stable. When a package comes in for unstable, it goes to the unstable
> buildd, and vice versa. When a package comes in for both, it is sent
> to both buildd's, and the packlage built by the unstable buildd goes
> into incoming normally, and the other one is hand installed by an
> admin into proposed updates or something.
Proposed updates. So. That's a factor I did not include in my calculation.
(In Germany one would say "you catched me on the cold foot" ;)
> Marcus> Having two different packages with the same version number is
> Marcus> evil, too. The package pool won't be able to cope for good
> Marcus> reasons.
>
> The stable package need not go into the package pool. Am I
> mistaken in assuming that proposed updates packages are not in the
> package pool? If I am mistaken, please scratch this part of my
> message.
I don't know. If it is, then you can scratch my messages instead.
Thanks,
Marcus
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