[oi-dev] pkg version bump in /dev
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
jeffpc at josefsipek.net
Thu Nov 24 00:55:49 UTC 2011
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:51:34AM +0100, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net> [2011-11-24 00:28]:
> > A bunch of people have been using /experimental's pkg. Everything seems to
> > work quite well. (For those of you who don't know, /experimental has the
> > 173 pkg backport.)
> >
> > Thoughts about moving this into /dev? I think it'll make things easier for
> > us in the long run - less divergence between /dev and /experimental, as well
> > as very useful features such as mediated links.
>
> /stable was to be branched off of /dev and /dev should serve as a
> testbed for updates and fixes going into the stable release. So
> in order to allow users who currently run /dev to migrate to
> /stable later we can't currently upgrade /dev to /experimental.
I'm not sure what you thought I meant, but...
> However, I'm all for integrating the b173 pkg backport into /dev
> and thus the stable release.
This is what I was thinking.
Jeff.
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