Re: [Gnumed-devel] gnumed-server packages

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Our wiki topic ServerInstall says:
> 
> To get the 'gnumed-server' package, one needs to add the software
> repository 'experimental' to the list of sources.
Ah, that's outdated, indeed. We now have server packages in the
standard unstable - testing - stable queue.

No more server package in experimental.

> Am I correct to think that normally it should be enough for people
> evaluating gnumed to do
>    apt-get -t testing install gnumed-server
Yes.

> Testing as at today, as evaluated using the handy package I learned about
> online
>    apt-show-versions
> and piping the output to grep for the string gnumed-server as follows
>    # apt-show-versions | grep gnumed-server
> yields
>    gnumed-server/testing uptodate 0v10.5-1

Another goodie is

   apt-cache policy <package name>

> BTW doing the same for gnumed-client yields
>    gnumed-client/testing uptodate 0.4.5-1
Because 0.4.6 is waiting in unstable for 10 days
before going into testing.

> Also, if I understand correctly,
> 
> 1) packages that were uploaded into experimental stay there, perhaps until
> someone makes a changelog entry instructing approval that it can move to a
> new target distribution...
Correct.

> this can be a required delaying tactic when
> some other package having the same name (like a lower-numbered version of
> gnumed-server) is still sitting in unstable waiting to move into testing
An unlikely scenario, but, yes.

> 2) packages that enter the unstable distribution (whether by direct upload
> or by passing from experimental into unstable) spend at least 14 days
> there

ten days

Karsten
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