Debian adds security support for testing [LWN.net]

Debian adds security support for testing

Posted Sep 11, 2005 15:50 UTC (Sun) by peace (guest, #10016)
In reply to: Debian adds security support for testing by ferringb
Parent article: Debian adds security support for testing

Hmmm, what are the ~x86 and -x86 keywords for if not testing /and/ unstable?

Good to know there is a dedicated security effort.

One thing about Gentoo, you sure can't say anything about it without being corrected! :) (this is a good thing, it's got a very active and helpful community. Even though it's hard to peg down it's ever evolving features.)

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Debian adds security support for testing

Posted Sep 12, 2005 12:59 UTC (Mon) by farnz (guest, #17727) [Link]

Gentoo has three keywords per architecture:

Plain arch (e.g. "x86"). This is used for software believed to be stable on that architecture.
~arch (e.g. "~x86"). This is used for software that needs testing on that architecture (but should work).
-arch (e.g. "-x86"). This is used for software that is known not to work on that architecture (such as binary-only software, or things like arcboot which depend on a specific architecture).

In addition, you've got masked packages (which are in the tree if you want to use them and give feedback, but which are expected to break - think GNOME and KDE alphas, for example), and unkeyworded packages (which are not known to work or fail on that architecture).