[tor-bugs] #26621 [Internal Services/Service - deb.tpo]: Link old deb.torproject.org experimental repos to stable

Tue Jul 3 05:45:29 UTC 2018

#26621: Link old deb.torproject.org experimental repos to stable
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 On tor-dev, Iain suggests:

     As an alternative strategy, symbolic links for old alpha repositories
     point to the current stable repository. If you're not updating your
     sources.list you end up on the stable branch. I think this would mean
     "less surprises" than jumping to a new alpha branch.

 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-July/013251.html

 Which is pretty much what weasel said in #14997:

     Running the current alpha should always be a deliberate decision.

     If you can't be bothered to change your sources.list once or twice a
 year, then you probably should be running stable.

 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14997#comment:3

 For example, since 0.3.3 is now stable, we could link:

     tor-experimental-0.3.3.x-jessie -> jessie

 And when 0.3.4 goes stable, we would create:

     tor-experimental-0.3.4.x-jessie -> jessie
     tor-experimental-0.3.5.x-jessie

 But what do we do with `tor-experimental-0.3.3.x-jessie -> jessie` when
 0.3.4 is stable?
 Delete it? Then operators don't get updates.
 Keep it? Then operators get 0.3.4 when they're expecting 0.3.3.

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