[arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

Giovanni Scafora linuxmania at gmail.com
Thu May 1 06:50:36 EDT 2008


2008/5/1 gan lu <rhythm.gan at gmail.com>:
> As we know, many packages saying even firefox or openoffice in unstable repo
> don't mean "unstable", instead, they are quite stable. The name of repo
> simply doesn't reflect the fact, so how about a rename?
>  It's harmless and may even bring some good point, at least from a marketing
> point, it may courage more devs or TUs to follow the upstream developing and
> put more packages there, in return attract more people who are interested in
> the package to do more (testing) work, which can eventually make the package
> better quality.

I vote for simply giving that repo to the TUs.
Just my 2 cents.


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Giovanni Scafora
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