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

[Peter Palfrader]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2018, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jul 2018, Iain Learmonth wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> apt will complain if the Suite/Codename in the Release file doesn't
> match what it expects.  symlinks don't change anything.

Also, jftr, users who have just the experimental sources.list entry
without the corresponding non-experimental one are already doing it
wrong, not following documented best practice.

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