Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-29 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 27-11-18 12:38, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good > in my point of view. > > - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they >wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid >

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/18 12:38 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good > in my point of view. > > - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they >wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also afraid

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 27 Nov 2018 at 08:38PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Cons) > - Maybe you should do cherry-picking changes from unstable to >testing-proposed-updates, not just ask "unblock" to Release Managers. > - Harder to get users for test with testing-proposed-updates repository -

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Dominik George
> Your thoughts? sid is not a rolling release for the public, it is a development area. Some users use it as a rolling release to get bleeding edge software, but in fact they become a developer that way (not meaning DD). If you think regular development prevents you from staying up to date

Re: Is using experimental distribution for shelter during freeze useful?

2018-11-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Hideki Yamane (2018-11-27 12:38:46) > Hi, > > Well, we use experimental as "shelter" during freeze, but it's not good > in my point of view. > > - During freeze, it is just ignored by most of the users since they >wouldn't know there's a newer package in there (and they also