Bug#476703: Snapshots

[Eugen Dedu]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 10 juillet 2008 à 16:41 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
>> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>> Wouldn’t you be interested in helping to maintain ekiga in Debian, where
>>> it could benefit of all of our processes and QA, instead of maintaining
>>> your own repository?
>> The repository is for snapshots, which do not yet exist in debian.  I 
>> was told that debian would not accept them until a beta release appears. 
>>   If these snapshots can be put in experimental, I would be very glad. 
>> It is also simpler to me.
>>
>> Or do you think at maintaining the stable version?  I do not have much 
>> time (I prefer to add DCCP code to ekiga and allow a broader type of NAT 
>> connections), I will try if you wish and tell me what to be done.
> 
> There is no reason why snapshots couldn’t go in experimental. This would
> allow to remove the package name distinction between ekiga and
> ekiga-snapshot. This way, maintaining it in unstable would only take a
> small part of the time needed for experimental packages, since the
> packaging should be the same for both.

Very well!  I think I must look at the differences between the stable 
and the snapshot of the diff.gz for ekiga, opal and ptlib/pwlib (I have 
already done it a few months ago).  What do you propose/what is your 
plan/what should I do for including snapshots?

-- 
Eugen