On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:58:05PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > > I assume you mean use unstable? see below. > > No, you can simply use private repositories, or backports, or whatever > else. There need be no Debian-branding of it in any way. What Debian > gives people is some kind of assurance about the stability and care > that goes in to it, and so far, what I have heard is that you want to > be entirely unrestricted.
Except that those private repositories and backports have no policy and no maintenance. My proposal is to create a policy for a repository with maintenance, security updates which introduces new packages and provides new functionality on outdated or useless packages from stable, and is built against stable. Puting a debian branding and effort on having such idea would make Debian only better. For those who want to use such infrastructure. And some people have already outlined a policy draft on the list. We can take them and try to make policy out of them. -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.4.27|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 It's called a change-over. The movie goes on and nobody knows the difference. --Narrator (Fight club)