Quoting Csillag Tamas (2013-08-24 18:04:32) > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 11:43:20AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > Given the scary note: "Note that this whole distribution is > > EXPERIMENTAL and will change without warning!" > > > > Might I suggest either: uploading this package only to experimental, > > not to sid; or to sid, but adding an RC bug so that this package > > does not get migrated to testing/stable? > > > > My apologies if this was already part of your plan. I know the > > warning is pretty obvious, but I think it would be useful to prevent > > users from ignoring the docs and relying on the current API as-is. > > I have been considering these options. > I was not sure about this in the begining either. > > Yet I think it adds value if this package is available in debian and > we are far from the release. The user can see the warning verbatim > from the upstream author so can make a conscious decision to use this > module (or not). The fact that Debian release is far away means it is acceptable to have RC bugs hanging unfixed, rather than that it is acceptable to allow broken code trickle into testing. Testing is meant for testing interoperability across packages - *not* for testing individual packages - that's what experimental is for! I recommend following the suggestion by Jonathan. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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