Scripsit Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
> Mark Brown wrote:

>> Would it also be possible for porters to update the snapshots in some
>> manner beyond having an apt source equivalent to the security archive
>> added by d-i?

> It'd be possible, certainly -- cf proposed-updates and stable.

The proposal says that secondary architectures are not allowed to have
proposed-updates and stable.

> and the expectation is that non-release arches don't stress as much
> about RC bugs and similar as release arches will,

On what is this expectation founded? Mind you "non-release" is not a
status that the portes involved in the arch voluntarily choose; it is
something forced on them by the release team (or some of the other
veto powers of the Vancouver plan).

> which means you should be able to do an Ubuntu and say (as they do
> for universe) "we'll release when we want, and if random packages
> are broken, well, wait a few months and cross your fingers :)".

And what if a secondary architecture does not want to lower themselves
to that standard.

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