<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><div><br></div></div><div>On 3 Jul 2018, at 16:54, Peter Palfrader <<a href="mailto:weasel@torproject.org">weasel@torproject.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Tue, 03 Jul 2018, Peter Palfrader wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Sun, 01 Jul 2018, Iain Learmonth wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 30/06/18 15:42, nusenu wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>but maybe someone else would be willing to invoke a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>"ln" commands everytime a new new alpha repo is born.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>tor-alpha-jessie -> tor-experimental-0.3.4.x-jessie</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As an alternative strategy, symbolic links for old alpha repositories</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>point to the current stable repository.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>apt will complain if the Suite/Codename in the Release file doesn't</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>match what it expects. symlinks don't change anything.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Also, jftr, users who have just the experimental sources.list entry</span><br><span>without the corresponding non-experimental one are already doing it</span><br><span>wrong, not following documented best practice.</span><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The generator at:</div><div><a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en#ubuntu">https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en</a></div><div>creates lines for the alpha and stable series when the</div><div>alpha is selected. (And it creates nightly and stable for nightly.)</div><div><br></div><div>So relays automatically transition to stable once the alpha series</div><div>disappears. I've closed #26621, because we don't need to do</div><div>anything more.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div><div><br></div></body></html>