On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, W. Martin Borgert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-02-18 15:48, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >> Do you know why it is marked as unstable? > > OK, this is Debian terminology related to Debian releases, not > to the software it contains. I know, that this terminology is > confusing for people outside of Debian. Sorry! Explanation: > > Every package (such as web.py) in Debian goes first to > "unstable" which does not mean that web.py is unstable, but that > it can be replaced by a new version without warning. After ten > days (normally) the package goes to "testing". Again, the word > "testing" is not related to the package itself. About every two > years testing is frozen (no changes are allowed), and finally > released as "stable". Again, "stable" means, that the package > version will not be changed. A software in "stable" is not > necessarily more stable than a package in "unstable"!
Thanks for explaining! Debian webpy page[1] says that python-cheetah is recommended for python-webpy. The current version of web.py doesn't support cheetah. Can you please fix that? [1]: http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-webpy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en.
