Index of /debian-archive/debian/dists/bo/bo-unstable/
The bo-unstable directory stores packages which are taken from the
current unstable distribution (aka hamm) but compiled to work with Debian
1.3.1 (aka bo). This has become necessary since "hamm" uses a different
version of the "libc" so partial upgrades from "bo" to "unstable" are
nearly impossible.
The packages in bo-unstable are provided as extra service for our users
who need newer versions of some packages or who want to help testing newer
packages (but don't have a possibility to run a full "unstable" system).
There is no seperation of free and non-free packages in bo-unstable.
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* WARNING! The packages in bo-unstable are even more *
* unstable than the packages in "unstable", since *
* they are not used by that many people. *
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* The Debian developers do not make any attempts *
* to test these packages! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! *
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Every Debian maintainer is free to upload bo-unstable versions of his
packages, but no one is forced to do so. (The distribution should
simply be `bo-unstable'.) Maintainers are free to ignore and close
any bug reports against bo-unstable versions of their packages without
further comments.
Debian maintainers may also release bo-unstable versions of someone
else's packages after following the usual procedure for interim releases,
that is, contacting the maintainer or the debian-devel mailing list
about the intention to release a bo-unstable package and waiting for
an acknowledgement.
It is important that bo-unstable packages use version numbers that are
different from "bo" and "hamm" packages. In addition, upgrades from
"bo" to "bo-unstable" and "bo-unstable" to "hamm" should be possible at
any time. Therefore, the following versioning scheme has to be used for
bo-unstable packages:
bo-unstable hamm
last bo package 1.2-4 ---
old package 1.2-4bo5 1.2-5
new package 1.2-4bo6 1.2-6
newer package 1.2-4bo7 1.2-7
non-maintainer 1.2-4bo7.1 1.2-7.1
new package 1.3-0bo1 1.3-1
newer package 1.3-0bo2 1.3-2
non-maintainer 1.3-0bo2.1 1.3-2.1
That is, bo-unstable version numbers use the revision of the latest
package in "bo", concatenated with "bo" and the Debian revision of the
corresponding package in "hamm". In case of a new upstream version in
"hamm", the version number is taken from the new "hamm" version with
Debian revision 0, concatenated with "bo" and the Debian revision of the
"hamm" package.