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From: Andrei Popescu on 26 May 2010 12:10 On Wed,26.May.10, 09:52:00, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > If it truly has no stable (or even beta) branch it should not be > > anywhere in Debian except Experimental. > > Agreed. Sid is only for packages that may be appropriate for a Debian release > at some point in the future. A development version with no upstream support > for the entire life cycle of a stable release should be nowhere near Sid. It is ok to have it in Sid, because it still has to migrate to testing to be part of any release. This is exactly why #581265 was filed. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 26 May 2010 12:20 On Wednesday 26 May 2010 11:05:18 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,26.May.10, 09:52:00, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > If it truly has no stable (or even beta) branch it should not be > > > anywhere in Debian except Experimental. > > > > Agreed. Sid is only for packages that may be appropriate for a Debian > > release at some point in the future. A development version with no > > upstream support for the entire life cycle of a stable release should be > > nowhere near Sid. > > It is ok to have it in Sid, because it still has to migrate to testing > to be part of any release. This is exactly why #581265 was filed. Sorry, yes. That's a fine alternative to not including it: filing a migration-blocker bug. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
From: Steve Fishpaste on 27 May 2010 14:40 On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:27:02AM -0500, John Hasler uttered: > Steve Fishpaste writes: > > With Chromium there is no "stable" or "beta" it's a development > > branch. So being the development branch, > > If it truly has no stable (or even beta) branch it should not be > anywhere in Debian except Experimental. Which is where it was originally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100527183624.GA26773(a)google.com
From: Steve Fishpaste on 27 May 2010 14:50
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:47:43AM -0600, Aaron Toponce uttered: > On 05/26/2010 05:49 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:18:12AM -0600, Aaron Toponce uttered: > >> On 05/24/2010 12:42 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > >>> It is in experimental, and work fine for me: > >> > >> ...but we're not talking about experimental now, are we? :) > > > > Yup I was originally as that's where Chromium was at first. > > Sid != experimental. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you started the thread > about Chromium in Sid, not in experimental, and there hasn't been > mention of experimental until now. > > So, care to clarify your reply? <sigh> Does it matter? It was originally in experimental. Because I read the Developer's list I noticed that it was moved to Sid. I only noticed that it was packaged for Debian from one of the Debian sites that echoes it's feed to Twitter; several weeks ago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100527184222.GB26773(a)google.com |