Bug#173593: ITP: ion-devel -- A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)

[Teemu Hukkanen <tjhukkan@iki.fi>]

Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se> writes:

> * Package name    : ion-devel
>   Version         : 0.0.20021104
>   Upstream Author : Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@cc.tut.fi>
> * URL             : http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/
> * License         : Clarified Artistic License
>   Description     : A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)
>
> Ion, based on PWM, is a keyboard-friendly window manager with a very
> text-editorish interface and no overlapping windows.
> .
> This is the development branch of Ion.
>
> Note that this is already packaged, I'm just waiting for somebody to
> sponsor it. You can get the package at
> <http://kanin.dsv.su.se/ion-devel/>.

There is already Package: ion, why do you need to put unstable software
into the archive?

Why can't cvs-snapshot-upgrade-junkies use separate repositories, such
as the one you mentioned above?

This is actually a general problem, lots of -cvs or -devel packages end
up in stable.