On 12-Jan-2001 Jim McCloskey wrote: > >|> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not >|> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have >|> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me >|> happy. > > Does the existence of `testing' mean that `proposed-updates' is (in > effect anyway) redundant? It seems that very few packages have gone in > there since testing came on the scene. >
no, proposed-updates are for updates to a release. So if we want to get a package into the next revision of Potato, it will go into proposed-updates. Obviously this happens less often than changes to unstable.
