Bug#458275: [Warzone-dev] Bug#458275: should warzone2100 (beta) be in Debian testing (and migrate to stable)?

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Jul 25 19:07:11 UTC 2008


Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Giel van Schijndel <me at mortis.eu> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK the package can *not* receive any updates once it enters stable.
>> Apart from security fixes that is. But I'm pretty sure that, warzone
>> being a game and all, isn't eligible for security updates.
>>
>> @Paul: can you confirm or deny this?
>
> Correct, stable recieves only security fixes and fixes for other
> release-critical bugs (failing to build, being broken on some
> architecture etc). Fixes for non-showstopper changes are not accepted.
> warzone2100 would be eligible for security updates if any are found.
>
> Personally I'm leaning towards leaving warzone out of testing/stable
> until 2.1.0 is released and uploading to backports.org when it is
> done.

Are there any bugs, which make warzone2100 unplayable? Otherwise we
shouldn't exclude it from Lenny just be because it's not the final
version yet.

Cheers,
        Moritz





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