Allan McRae wrote:
Hi,
coreutils-8.0 has been released but flagged beta because of some fairly large changes in rm which now uses gnulib's hierarchy traversal (= faster) and many changes to gnulib in the area of filesystem primitives. I found the snapshot before this fully usable, and will do a "make check/test" to ensure everything is working as it should.
I would like to put it in [testing] _without_ the option of it every moving to [core]. I know we do this for some software, but never anything so "core" to the system that I know of. So... can I use [testing] for testing in this case?
Allan
Since the general consensus is that "testing" is proving ground for packages intended to be moved to core/extra, I don't think putting beta software there is a good idea. Maybe we can create a new repository, called "staging", that replaces the current "testing" repository and use the "testing" repository for really experimental stuff like beta software. Glenn