[Freeciv-Dev] Re: feature freeze

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:24:43PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> Isn't it reasonable to sync Debian and Freeciv :

To begin with, I was just ranting. Then, your proposal is
well-meaning but not doable.

> - freeciv.org makes freeciv-*.deb daily from CVS tree and
>   send it to debian.org/Incoming

Possible, but not desireable. CVS snapshots don't necessarily
work, and it's a bad idea to have everyone who uses Debian's
unstable using a CVS snapshot.


> - in stable Debian we have last stable Freeciv

Not always. Debian stable is stable; so, after it is released,
I can't change the version of Freeciv in it. So, in stable
Debian, we have the Freeciv wich was stable by freezing time.


> - in unstable Debian we have current CVS Freeciv

Not desireable, what if there is a stable Freeciv newer than
the one in Debian stable? And what if the current CVS doesn't
work?


> - when Debian freeze, we put last stable to frozen, CVS to unstable,
>   and update frozen only to new stable version if it appear during freeze

I can't update frozen, that's what it means. I can only upload
bugfixes, which is not the case.


> - maintainer of freeciv-* is set to `"Freeciv Team" <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>'

Not possible. Maintainer can only be a team when it's a Debian
team - like, the Apt team, or the debian-libc list, or the
Debian boot-floppies team.



Anyway, syncing Freeciv to Debian is not a problem. The real
problem is internal to Debian (the fact that there is too much
time between our releases).

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