[cut-team] lightweight rolling alternative

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Raphael,

On Donnerstag, 9. September 2010, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> For this specific problem of missing packages in testing due to
> unsupportability of a given upstream version for a period of 2 years
> or more, I would like to sugggest that we're addressing the problem at the
> wrong level with additional suites. What about accepting them in stable
> but letting users know of the additional constraints ("might change with
> new upstream version during the release's lifetime") and letting them
> configure APT to accept or not packages marked as "volatile" or
> "security-with-new-upstream"? (this APT feature doesn't exist yet)

I think this is a good idea.


cheers,
	Holger
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