[tex-live] Stable vs. Unstable/Testing Update Repositories?

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 24 14:23:41 CET 2010


On 24 February 2010 12:39, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> reason why I love Debian : unstable/testing/stable). People have already
> explained why it wouldn't be easy to do this (though I have a few ideas on this
> point, but we'll discuss them internally) but I'd like to add another argument.
> You'd still have to educate users not to use the unstable repo. Or we could make
> "stable" the default, but then we'd have fewer testers on unstable, so bugs
> would be more likely to go unnoticed to stable.

We already have a testing repository of sorts (tlcritical) but it is
limited to infrastructure updates only. If it would be a complete
repository then perhaps more users would be inclined to use it. But
let's discuss it internally first.

Cheers,

Tomek



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