The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Continuous Releases?

On Jan 31, cas@taz.net.au (Craig Sanders) wrote:
> However, I think that "frozen" should MEAN "frozen". Once a release is
> made, that's it...it's done, no more changes ever for any reason at all.
> Users should be referred to "live" aka "unstable" for any updates.

But what if the updates in unstable aren't compatible with the frozen
system? For example, when we start building stuff for libc6 in unstable,
you're not going to be able to use arbitrary packages into a "stable
based" system. I believe that we *need* a place to put release bug
fixes, and the way we do that now is just fine.

If you want a pure Debian 1.2, warts and all, you can get it. If you
want Debian 1.2.x, you can get that too. My system at home stays
pretty much at bleeding edge unstable. My system at work lives
on 1.2.x. Having to wade through unstable, trying to figure out
what I needed/wanted/would work would be a real PITA.

Now, if you're saying that we had to make way to many bug fixes, I don't
think anyone can argue. I screwed up on cron, and I'm still getting bug
reports :-(. 

> frozen/stable/Debian1.x should be made up at release time, mostly as
> a direct copy of "live" but with a few hand-selected older versions
> which are known to be better/less problematic than the ones in "live".
> Ideally, unstable will have been tested enough that we can select good
> versions to go into the release.

I think Lars "tested" tree will help with this. There is no reason that
package x in Debian 1.2.x can't stay in tested and then 1.3, leaving the
new version of x in unstable. The whole slamdunk of unstable to stable
is probably not the best approach (hindsight is such a wonderful thing).

Steve

-- 
The Mole - I think, therefore I scream 

			  "There's something you don't see every day."
[_Ghostbusters_]


--
Please respect the confidentiality of material on the debian-private list.
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-private-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com