[tor-dev] #14997: canonical path to tor alpha debian repo

[Nusenu]

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> What do you think about #14997? 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14997
> 
> I guess this would not be big effort - simply creating a subfolder
> for the alpha builds would do it?

Ok, I just saw that weasel closed it as a wontfix - the same moment as
I wrote this email.

weasel wrote:
> 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.

Maybe explaining my use case/motivation will make it more clear why
this is not about changing the sources.list once a year.

I wrote an ansible role [1] where the user can opt-in for alpha
releases by setting a boolean. So this is already a user decision.

By taking the user's decision into account I generate the appropriate
sources.list entry, but if the sources.list entry for alpha releases
is not static this will break over time.

I could do some "lets find out current stable and do stableversion +
1" but that will also break because currently the latest stable is
0.2.6.6 but there is no such repo as
https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/dists/tor-experimental-0.2.7.x-jessie/

Generally speaking it would just be a lot cleaner on my side if there
would be such a static place to go for alpha releases.

regards,
Nusenu


[1] https://github.com/nusenu/ansible-relayor
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