Staging area for hardy-proposed ?

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 07-06-2008 om 14:12 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Matt
Zimmerman:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 09:05:00PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > If they are experienced enough I tell them to enable it, install the
> > package(s) they want and then disable it again, but for really
> > inexperienced users this is too complicated.
> > 
> > So, providing a special (virtual?) repository that only makes available
> > those packages that might help to fix a bug would be really great...
> 
> You could use a PPA for this, and perhaps copy the desired packages into it
> (I believe this can be done through the Launchpad web interface now, at
> least for some cases).

That would be a possibility, I'll check into it, but some sort of a
"filter" over the -proposed (an maybe -backports) repositories would
require less server-side resources (as using a PPA would require a
rebuild, I guess?).

I think this is already possible with apt preferences, but there is no
user-friendly GUI for it...

> Of course, all packages in -proposed are intended to fix *some* bug...

Most people only want to test bugfixes for bugs that hurt them...  ;-)


-- 
Jan Claeys