Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016, Simon McVittie wrote: > This sounds quite a lot like the "rolling" suite that gets proposed > every few years, with the possible exception that some proposals > for "rolling" have had it bypass unstable while unstable is frozen, > and it sounds as though this doesn't. > > I th

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 at 12:18:18 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > ...and to have a suite, like testing, that: > > - does not transition to stable, and is intended to be used as is > - contains anything that enter testing > - also contains the packages that would enter testing but do not >because

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:46:36AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > I think the success of our stable releases depends on the continued > assessments of each and every maintainer. I don't believe you will find > enough developers and maintainers who are willing to evaluate all > packages in the arc

Re: Packages without long term stable releases

2016-04-05 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, I think the success of our stable releases depends on the continued assessments of each and every maintainer. I don't believe you will find enough developers and maintainers who are willing to evaluate all packages in the archive. Who will make the decision if a package is ok for stable or