Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
[ Please CC me: I have problems keeping up with debian-devel's traffic ] On 05/01/06 at 17:29 +0100, Nicolas François wrote: > Is there a command that can display the list of packages I'm using with a > version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? You can use MultiDistroTo

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:11:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Is there any better way I can get snapshots/betas tested by the > > majority of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing > > that should just be uploaded

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > Is there any better way I can get snapshots/betas tested by the majority > of users? Do people think that this is the sort of thing that should > just be uploaded to unstable and allowed to flow into testing? Provided you're willing

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:13:05PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Is there a command that can display the list of packages I'm using with a > > version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? > > `aptitude -t experimental` That's neat! > I love aptitude :) I love it even mo

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Simon Huggins dijo [Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +]: > > http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2005/09/30#experimental-useless > > See this worries me a bit. > > I'd love for Debian users to test some more cutting edge versions of > packages (partly so upstream gets more testers, partly so

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > > [[ Marc Haber ]] > > Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers > > themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. > I wouldn't say that package maintainers are the only ones who use

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Travis Crump
Nicolas François wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>> * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers themselves and t

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Olaf van der Spek [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:10:36 +0100]: > I'd be nice if it's possible to easily install a package from > experimental or unstable (in testing or unstable) once or to track > that section for that package. I once heard that pinning experimental to 101 ach

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Olaf van der Spek
the list of packages I'm using with a > version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? > > (I'm willing to test some experimental packages, but on a case by case > basis, not by pinning up experimental) I'd be nice if it's possible to easil

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: > > > Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers > > > themselves and their closest environment

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi DDs, > [[ Marc Haber ]] > Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers > themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. > [[ Simon Huggins ]] > See this worries me a bit. > > I'd love for Debian users to test some more cutting edge versions of > pack

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Linas Zvirblis
I'd love for Debian users to test some more cutting edge versions of packages (partly so upstream gets more testers, partly so I can see the bits I hate about the new versions and try to get them fixed) but I don't want them in testing now until they are properly released as a stable series. In f

Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: > > Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers > > themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. > More evidence: > http://www.perrier