Quoting Bálint Réczey (2015-05-18 16:59:34) > 2015-05-18 16:45 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk>: >> Quoting Alessandro Ghedini (2015-05-18 14:33:18) >>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>>> There are multiple ways to handle packages unsuitable for long-term >>>> maintenance: >>>> >>>> * Treat as "experimental" - e.g. mpv >>> >>> How is mpv unsuitable for long-term maintainance? >> >> Oh, I simply assumed that was the case, but since we have an expert >> on the matter (yourself) let's ask: >> >> Why are some mpv packages targeted experimental rather than unstable, >> if not because those specific releases are treated (by you) as >> unsuitable for long-term maintenance? > I uploaded xbmc versions built with ffmpeg to experimental because > ffmpeg was not allowed to enter testing but I wanted to provide an > xbmc version to our users which has better security support and fewer > bugs. > I could not upload it to unstable since unstable could not have two > versions of the package built from the same source and creating a new > xbmc-ffmpeg source package would have consume a lot of additional > mirror space which I wanted to avoid. > This solution seems to be trivial and established for trying different > build dependencies among developers
Thanks for providing an alternative example, and elaborating on it. > and I don't really understand why you are asking for explanation. I thought is was obvious from above that I merely bounced a question asked by Alessandro back to himself. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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