[SM-Discuss] stable/testing branches

Phil/CERisE/KG6MBQ cerise at littlegreenmen.armory.com
Thu Jul 25 23:20:14 EDT 2002


Eric Womack said:

> I think I was misunderstood.
>
> When I was refering to testing, I meant that we would be testing the package
> in order to move it from devel to test.  After no mishaps in test, it would
> then move to stable.
>
> I believe it is working out for the future that:
>
> devel allows software of any release
> test is beta and above (after having passed through devel)
> stabel is release level (after having passed through both of the above)  In
> other words, both our own use and the package author have shown it to be
> stable.

   Sensible.  I take it that new versions of the same software will
propagate in like manner.
   One possible conundrum to be solved.  Let's say I run devel for a
day and have it update my current setup.  Let's then say that I find
that critical spells (for me) in devel are broken.  If I then pull off
the stable grimoire and run update, will it replace the things in devel
with the versions in stable?

-Phil/CERisE




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