Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I didn't suggest it as a layer in the stable/testing/unstable/experimental spectrum. Rather, it is meant to be orthogonal to them, a completely new system. For example, there's no need to restrict uploads to DDs. Would it be an incentive if there was extra points granted for independent

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this is best left to unstable/experimental. Adding yet another layer of distributions would just increase the workload managing them. I didn't suggest it as a layer in the stable/testing/unstable/experimental spectrum. Rather, it is meant to

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2006-04-17 kello 08:04 -0300, Otavio Salvador kirjoitti: Do you think it could be a check before a package to be accepted in archive? I second that and would like to help with. If it can be made very, very reliable and accurate, not to mention fast, sure. I doubt that will happen very fast,

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Decklin Foster
Lars Wirzenius writes: Er, no. The point is to get things tested and hopefully fixed before uploading to unstable. Experimental might work, but then packages there need to be tested with the existing unstable in ways they are not, as far as I know, currently being tested. I disagree. The

Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
You're Devon Deppler, the maintainer for the Xyzzy set of packages, a total of a dozen packages. They're important and influential: about a quarter of the entire archive depends on the packages in one way or another. You have lots of users. Now upstream comes up with a new version, and changes

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're Devon Deppler, the maintainer for the Xyzzy set of packages, a total of a dozen packages. They're important and influential: about a quarter of the entire archive depends on the packages in one way or another. You have lots of users. Now

Re: Testing transitions before uploading to unstable

2006-04-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-04-16 kello 23:49 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow kirjoitti: That is called experimental or unstable. Er, no. The point is to get things tested and hopefully fixed before uploading to unstable. Experimental might work, but then packages there need to be tested with the existing unstable in