On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:41:45 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Given the scary note: "Note that this whole distribution is > > > EXPERIMENTAL and will change without warning!" > > 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. I think that's the key question: * Is the code broken? If yes than → experimental (or not in Debian at all). * If it's only new and experimental, than I don't see the problem, given the warning makes it clear, and it's by far not the only package with a not-yet-stable interfaces we have in the archive. > Testing is meant for testing interoperability across packages - *not* > for testing individual packages - that's what experimental is for! Right, but I don't think this upload is about testing the package (I assume it works as advertised), the only "issue" is the missing guarantee about the future. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rod Stewart: Forever Young
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