On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 09:14, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I've solved the problem for myself by just simply biting the bullet > and using unstable. I either have gotten lucky, or maintainers of > core packages have gotten much more careful about testing their > packages before uploading, so I haven't gotten screwed by updates as > often as I did before.
I think the latter is generally the case. People who upload broken stuff to unstable get berated pretty heavily. > So here are my questions. Is the "testing-x86 distribution" a crazy > idea? How hard would it be to implement it? Actually adding a distribution is pretty easy. All it really needs is Packages and Sources files for the most part, which are very small relative to the archive size. The only negative consequence I can think of is that the real testing would probably get less, well, testing.