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. -- Henning Makholm "Vi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra Kulturministeriets side sørger for at fremsende tallene og også give en beskrivelse af, hvordan man læser tallene. Tak for i dag!"