I think it's fine to include in an unstable dist. That's why they
call it "unstable" :-).
Others?
-K
David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org> writes:
> I got a mail this morning expressing some concern that including
> Subversion in Debian is not a good thing because Subversion is not
> finished. I understand that we must be careful with first
> impressions. I personally think the inclusion in Debian today will
> only help Subversion, but I'd like to hear the opinion of this list.
>
> Some points to consider:
>
> - Subversion has absolutely no chance of getting into the soon to be
> released Debian 'woody'. Subversion has a chance to get into the next
> Debian release which, if the past is any indicator, will happen
> summer 2004.
>
> - The Subversion package description starts out :
> "This is a development pre-alpha release of Subversion. Don't use it
> on a real project. You risk losing all your data."
>
> - Inclusion of Subverion in Debian at this time allows for any
> portability problems on Linux alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips,
> mipesel, powerpc, s390, sh, and sparc or hurd-i386 to be addressed
> now rather than later. The Debian build daemons will continuously
> attempt to build Subversion and at present I even run the testsuite
> as part of the build process. (to date all builds have failed but it
> isn't Subversion's fault [1])
>
>
> - In general those who run Debian unstable are not going to write off
> a piece of software at the first sign of a bug but will instead file
> a bug which may even include a patch that fixes the issue.
>
> Thanks for your input,
>
> David
>
> [1] : http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=subversion
>
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