[tur-users] Unstable (AKA -{svn, cvs, devel}) packages in [community] ?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/4/14, Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com>:
> Hi guys,
> I just noticed that xfce-svn is now in the [community] repo, is this an
> exception, or we changed our policy about unstable packages in community?
> There are many packages with a lot of votes that we didn't move into
> [community] because are -{svn,cvs,git,bzr,whatever} packages.
> Do we want to keep those packages out of [community] or what?
> Here some examples:
>
> Name                    Votes:
> virtualbox-svn          28
> compiz-git              24
> xgl-git                 22
> opera-devel             21
> virtualbox-modules-svn  20
> knetworkmanager-svn     23
> gmpc-svn                18
> nitrogen-svn            18
> gens-svn                15
> mpd-svn                 15
> amsn-svn                14
> pan-devel               14
>
> I have no strong opinion about this topic, just want to hear some
> thoughts.

opera-devel is pretty stable package
virtualbox-svn and virtualbox-modules-svn appeared before first
official Virtualbox OSE tarball released (there was only binary
commercial version and SVN when virtualbox was first released to
public)
mpd-svn looks like pretty stable too (from what users say, AFAIK)
xfce-svn packages were moved from Unstable because no dev wanted to
maintain them after Shadowhand resigned from maintainer's position.
There was short discussion about their future and then wizzomafizzo
agreed to maintain them in community.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)