On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> 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?
So in some sense, this has a precedent. We always put the 2.6.xx".0" kernel into [testing] with little intention of it going to [core], waiting instead for at least one stable release. I'd be fine with this as long as there is at least a version in mind that would be considered stable and able to move to [core], and it isn't going to affect the version in [core] as far as it lagging behind any pre-8.0 maint/bugfix release. -Dan