Bug#458275: [Warzone-dev] Bug#458275: should warzone2100 (beta) be in Debian testing (and migrate to stable)?

[Giel van Schijndel]

Christian Ohm schreef:
> On Thursday, 24 July 2008 at  2:00, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
>> Paul Wise schreef:
>>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 01:15 +0200, Giel van Schijndel wrote:
>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>> Another beta might be a good idea, if it is done quickly.
>>>
>>> Also, when the final release is done, we can put a warzone2100 backport
>>> on backports.org for lenny users to upgrade to. Many people don't know
>>> about backports.org though, so that might become a support issue/FAQ for
>>> the warzone devs.
>> To all devs (with or without commit access): I would really like this to
>> be an "active" decision on our part, as opposed to a "passive" one,
>> where we allow the decision to be made for us due to time passing. I.e.
>> either we decide that we do want our current state of 2.1 to be included
> 
> I think that is the problem. If 2.1 is included in stable now, it will
> stay at the version included at freeze time, whatever that will be (if I
> remember the policy correctly). There is debian-volatile for
> fast-changing packages, though the descriptions only talks about things
> like virus scanners or spam filters, I don't know if games are accepted
> there, and I don't know how many people know about it (possibly even
> less than backports).
> 
> So is whatever will be available at freeze time suitable to be included
> in a stable distribution for over a year?
> 
>> in Debian's next stable release, or we decide that we don't want that to
>> happen. As long as that decision is an active one, I can live with both.
> 
> Well, if it can be updated (which I doubt, but I could be wrong), then
> I'm ok with including it, but if it cannot, then backports sounds like
> the better plan to me.

AFAIK the package can *not* receive any updates once it enters stable.
Apart from security fixes that is. But I'm pretty sure that, warzone
being a game and all, isn't eligible for security updates.

@Paul: can you confirm or deny this?

-- 
Giel

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