On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andres Salomon wrote:
Releasing a snapshot of unstable definitely seems like a step backwards. Of course, I understand the reason for suggesting it (and not wanting to support a testing distribution for SCC). Instead, I would suggest to porters that they base releases off Debian stable releases. When a stable release comes out, the distribution can be (re)built for all SCC archs; porters can then add their own packages and fixes on top of stable, as necessary. This has the added benefit of simplifying security maintenance; when a DSA is announced, porters can simply rebuild (or incorporate patches, if necessary) based on the security update. Developers can still track unstable from scc.d.o, so as to minimize the work necessary after a stable release (architecture-specific problems can be found and fixed as they occur in unstable, instead of suddenly popping up in a stable release). Porters are also in charge of their own d-i images, so there's no need to bother the RMs with it.
While I'm not so deeply involved to decide whether this is technically doable but the sugguestions sounds as sane to me as your name implies. ;-))
Kind regards
Andreas.
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