asterisk 1.6.1.0~dfsg-1 binary packages?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:03:42PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:37:11PM -0400, Eloy Paris wrote:
>>> P.S. Guys, I realize I'm running unstable and you are uploading 
>>> these beta packages to unstable, but people running unstable 
>>> sometimes use unstable for production-type things. What's the 
>>> rationale for uploading a beta of something as critical as a PBX to 
>>> unstable; wouldn't it be better to upload mission critical, 
>>> non-stable, beta software to experimental?
>>
>> Debian unstable is *not* intended for release of unstable code.  It 
>> is intended for stable code, which needs to be tested together - i.e. 
>> being unstable as *distribution*.
>No, it is intended for release of code, which will be tested for its 
>stability so it can become part of testing and hence the next stable 
>release.

It seems we might actually agree here.

Debian unstable is for code that is *expected* to be stable in itself, 
without it actually being tested as such (that testing process is what 
Debian unstable and Debian testing in combination are providing.


>Eloy, I'm sorry for your problems, but if you wanted something stable 
>you should have used stable.

I agree.  I did not mean to say that anyone shoul be able to rely on 
Debian *as* *a* *system* to be stable, only that we developers shouldn't 
throw known regressions at it.


>That doesn't mean of course that we'd like to upload crap to unstable.

And not half-crap either.  We shouldn't upload known regressions from 
earlier releases.

Uploads to unstable should generally be treated as targeted next stable 
release of Debian.



  - Jonas

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