On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:20:27PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > > IMHO an upload to experimental is simply hiding packages and I do not > > like this at all if there are no strong reasons for this (like in the > > ensembl case where you might crash your system (done that, been there) > > when installing the package because of specific dependency only > > available in experimental conflicting with other regular packages in > > main.) > I use experimental all the time
May I call you Kamikaze-Steffen? :-) > (writing from a KDE 4.7.2 system) Honestly (and off topic): I wonder whether any program in experimental could be so good that it saves so much time that it is finally a time saving compared to the time you need to fix your system after a crash. (Words said by somebody who does not even use 'unstable' but 'testing' exclusively.) > > So moving a package to experimental is keeping users away which should > > test the package. > > > > Finally it creates additional work for ftpmaster once they are asked > > to move the package from experimental to main. > My perception of experimental is different. Obviosely! :-P > The package is not > dangerous. But it is not ready for testing. I could live with unstable > and a bug assigned to it to prevent its migration. I would prefer this definitely over experimental in this case. > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedTodo > > > I just had a look. It is ok, basically. To avoid adding to much to it, > should we have a page for every package that wants to communicate with > the public? Then [1] could have a section "for school kids" and give > references to those more detailed descriptions. I'm fine if this page is created and maintained by somebody else. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
