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Re: Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian.
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Alex Shinn |
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Re: Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian. |
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08 Jul 2001 17:02:11 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
Rob> I realized this morning that since I'm the Debian maintainer
Rob> for guile it would be possible for me to create 1.5.x
Rob> packages and release them to unstable. Among other things,
Rob> this would expose it to a potentially wide testing audience
Rob> on multiple architectures.
Rob> However, I haven't had time to think about whether or not I
Rob> think this is a good or bad idea, from either the Debian,
Rob> Guile, or rlb perspectives :>
>From the Guile perspective, I think this would be very good on general
"release early, release often" principles.
>From the Debian perspective, would this just be a short-term set of
packages, in preparation for the 1.6.x release? Would you then make
it a convention to have both stable and unstable branches available as
Debian packages?
>From my own biased perspective, I'd like to see this happen so that I
can package guile-sdl :)
--
Alex Shinn <address@hidden>
Lisper, Smalltalker, and all around poor speaker
- Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian., Rob Browning, 2001/07/08
- Re: Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian.,
Alex Shinn <=
- Re: Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian., Evan Prodromou, 2001/07/08
- Re: Wondering about the stable branch, testing, and Debian., Dale P. Smith, 2001/07/08