Build streams; preparing for 8.2 release.

[Chris Ball]

Hi Dennis,

   > As i have said previously and repeatedly been ignored (like most of
   > what i say).  this process will not work.  period.  It cant be made
   > to work in the same fashion as Debian because its not Debian.
   > everyone needs to quit trying to fit square pegs into round holes.

   > things more than likely will never be able to move from testing
   > into stable in the proposed format.  why?  because Testing is based
   > on F-9 and uses the F-9 toolchain and dependencies.  and stable is
   > based on F-7 which uses completely different toolchain and
   > dependencies.  We need finer grained control over things.

I think you need to read the proposal again.  Unstable and Testing would
immediately be based on F9, and there is no "stable" other than released
builds -- stable is what happens to testing when it's done, so there's
no mix of F9 and F7 here.  An F9 testing build becomes an F9 stable
release with its own release name, such as 8.1.1.

   > Throw away what you know about debian's process.  right now it
   > counts for squat.

I don't know what you mean by this.  All we're doing is defining three
build names, and (our own) processes for moving packages between them.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>