Bug#390888: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#390888: Full support for experimental

Junichi Uekawa dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Tue Oct 10 20:59:52 UTC 2006


Hi,
 
> > I assume this patch is for using experimental dependencies from
> > unstable chroots, not the one for
> > 	pbuilder create --distribution experimental
> > which creates a comlpetely experimental chroot.
> 
>  I have no idea how a "completely experimental chroot" looks like, but
>  when we (pkg-gnome) are uploading to experimental, we try to have the
>  minimum number of depedencies in experimental.  I believe the
>  experimental buildds do the same.  What I wouldn't want for example is
>  to pull libc6 2.4/2.5 via packages from experimental right now.

Hearing that I feel positive about merging this patch.

1. could you re-send the patch in a non-incremental form so that it's
   easier to apply?

2. It might not be suitable for etch release if it's happening in two
   months time.

regards,
	junichi
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