Re: pcmcia-cs updated for stable?
Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
> This would interfere with our interpretation of stable.
In the case of pcmcia-cs etc, I agree.
> I would be in favour of adding the apropriate packages to a
> different ftp directory or link it on the www.debian.org/release
> page so people can fetch it. Same applies for modified
> boot-floppies which Shaleh has asked for.
Yes.
OTOH, I do think, for instance, jadetex from proposed-updates should
be releaseed into stable since the one in stable is absolutely broken.
Therefore I would modify the criteria for stable (as yet, not
officially stated anywhere AFAIK):
* security fixes
* critical bugs, i.e., problems which are causing significant
headaches to a significant number of users, and can be fixed
pretty easily (best example here is that the current stable
kernel-image-2.0.36 on i386, and hence the boot-floppies, don't
support aic7xxx adapters)
* no new packages
* no new upstream versions (with possible exception if it's the only way
to solve some of the above problems)
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