On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:27:43AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 06/30/2010 01:18 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote: > > On 06/30/2010 06:15 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >> I just noticed that the chromium-browser package releases in Debian > >> GNU/Linux unstable are synced version-for-version with the google-chrome > >> beta package provided by the 3rd party Google Linux repository. Is this > >> intentional? > > > > No, we follow the stable channel. > > Stable: 5.0.375.86 > Beta: 5.0.375.86 > Dev: 6.0.437.3 > > For some reason, I thought the stable channel was still in v4. > > >> What's the rationale behind using the beta releases for > >> chromium-browser in Debian rather than just using the nightlies? > > > > Should we use the Chromium nightly builds ? Really? :) > > Well, when you put it that way. :) Honestly, I don't think of Sid as a > collection of stable packages. That's what I think about Lenny. I think > of Sid as "the latest and greatest", regardless of version, and that's > why I thought the nightlies would be appropriate here. > > In my mind's eye, I played out that Sid would get the nightlies and > Squeeze would get the beta pushes. But, following the stable channel > makes sense. I was just curious.
Sid is for what is eventually going in testing/squeeze, which ultimately becomes stable. At some point, you have to have stable software in sid. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100630130125.gb5...@glandium.org
