Bug#173593: ITP: ion-devel -- A window manager with tiled windows (devel branch)
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Teemu Hukkanen said:
> 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?
And ?? What's the problem with that ? We already have a mozilla stable
and a mozilla-snapshot package.
> Why can't cvs-snapshot-upgrade-junkies use separate repositories,
> such as the one you mentioned above?
I think you should read what was said about the name
ion-devel. Ion-devel is a *RELEASE*. It's the latest development branch
release of the ion project.
> This is actually a general problem, lots of -cvs or -devel packages
> end up in stable.
Who said that ? We only want this package appears in the Sid. What's
more a devel package is IMHO targetted to be the future stable
version. What's more ion and ion-devel are completely different and a
Woody user can have the choice to try this version. One more time nobody
said that mozilla and mozilla-snapshot shouldn't be integrated in the
debian packaging process.
My 2€cents.
Cheers,
zeDek
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