On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:

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> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
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> > Yes. Beta software is ok for "unstable". Only "critical" software (i.e.,
> > programs that are likely to trash your filesystem) should go into
> > "experimental".
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> I disagree here.
> 
> If beta is not ok for stable, then it is not ok for unstable either,
> because unstable may become frozen and later unstable at any time.

Later in the mail you quoted I said:

`However, we might consider having a few packages in unstable which will
not be included in the `frozen' distribution automatically, for example, 
if the upstream maintainers don't want us to include it in a stable Debian
release.'


Thanks,

Chris

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