[tor-dev] the consequences of deprecating debian alpha repos with every new major branch

Iain Learmonth irl at torproject.org
Sun Jul 1 14:57:05 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 30/06/18 15:42, nusenu wrote:
> but maybe someone else would be willing to invoke a
> "ln" commands everytime a new new alpha repo is born.
> 
> tor-alpha-jessie -> tor-experimental-0.3.4.x-jessie

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.

Thanks,
Iain.

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