Re: pcmcia-cs updated for stable?

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > 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)

I tend to agree, however, I feel that the criterium needs to be more
detailed.

>   * no new upstream versions (with possible exception if it's the only way
>     to solve some of the above problems)

Security fixes might imply this.

Regards,

	Joey

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