[OpenSER-Devel] debian packaging - etch vs. unstable

[Klaus Darilion]

Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> 
> On 10/18/07 17:25, Dan Pascu wrote:
>> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Henning Westerholt wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> i would like to fix the library version for berkeley db in
>>> the /packaging/debian directory. 4.5 is not available in etch, only
>>> 4.4. Dan changed in commit 2910 the libsnmp depends to unstable, so we
>>> have apparently a conflict here.
>>>     
>>
>> I was under the impression that the debian tree was for unstable, 
>> while debian-sarge was for debian stable. If it was for etch, my 
>> mistake, you can revert them. However I need to mention that when the 
>> debian package is built and uploaded, it'll be first uploaded into 
>> unstable. Nobody can push new packages into debian stable unless they 
>> are security fixes. So we still need a directory for debian unstable.
>>
>>  
>>> It would make sense to create a new directory "debian-etch" like the
>>> available sarge dir, then changes for unstable would not conflict with
>>> stable.
>>>     
>>
>> Probably it would make sense to replace debian-sarge with debian-etch 
>> since sarge was replaced by etch as the stable distribution.
>>   
> yes, agree, debian-etch should be the name for the stable version. If 
> someone wants to keep for debian-sarge, we can do so, it there are 
> volunteers. And indeed, all packages get first into the unstable. 
> However, this process is coordinated by Julien. We owe to make available 
> packages for the other distro via openser site, getting officially from 
> unstable to stable debian takes a while, some people don't want to wait.

So lets use the names for stable versions (add debian-etch and keep 
debian-sarge as it is) and "debian" always is for unstable.

ok?

klaus