Testing/Experimental Packages in Universe

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:38:22PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> we had small discussion on #ubuntu-motu about some packages which
> belongs to main or universe actually, and I was thinking about some
> ideas.
> 
> We were talking about Gaim and PSI and some other IM Clients, where we
> want to see and test some new patches or CVS releases from upstream.
> 
> Problem right now is, that we would like to create some testing packages
> e.g. gaim-devel for gaim with non-official patches applied or psi-cvs
> for actual PSI releases from CVS head (same applies to kopete).
> 
> We would like to propose them as new packages to universe, so the
> "MOTUNewPackages Policy" applies here. this is not the problem.
> 
> What I want to discuss is, are you ok with those packages (speaking to
> main maintainers :))) or do you have any objections?

I see no problem with it, so long as good taste is exercised with respect to
the choice and quantity of packages, and they are named appropriately to
discourage users from installing them unless they really want the bleeding
edge.

We're interested in doing this kind of thing on an automated basis in the
future; see http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/GrumpyGroundhog

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 - mdz