On 28/08/13 at 22:58 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hello Debian world, > > there is currently a discussion within the FTP Team and we appear to > have two opinions on it. As we are open on the outcome and it basically > affects the whole project, we came up with the following summary to > solicit feedback, opinions and other ideas. > > The proposal at hand is: > * Lower dinstall frequency to two times a day. > * Have incoming.debian.org be an apt-able location (actually the buildd > locations, so it is suite/archive specific, not one global queue)[1] > > Now there are those of us who think that this is against "the spirit" of > having multiple dinstalls and that having apt-able incoming repositories > will only lead to people with "versionitis" repeatedly abuse apt-get > update, and not actually help development significantly. > > And then there are those of us who think that it is sometimes very > convenient to be able to get that bug fix you have been waiting for > easily, probably even on porter boxes (where a wget && dpkg -i does not > work for most of us). > > Feedback, Flamewar, Running away crying, anyone? :) > > [1] If we end up doing this, we're thinking of asking DSA to provide > this via some sort of CDN or through static.debian.org. We haven't > discussed this proposal with DSA yet, so we aren't entirely sure of > the details regarding the implementation on their side.
Hi, Is there a reason why we couldn't have incoming.d.o apt-able without lowering the dinstall frequency? Lucas -- 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/20130828215539.ga4...@xanadu.blop.info
