On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:14:53AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > >I'm sorry, I am on a public terminal, and can't quite remember where I > >read it - But testing should always be close to a releasable state. > > That assumption is both false and absurd. Testing has exactly two > advantages over unstable--1) all dependencies are satisfied and 2) known > rc bugs don't propagate to testing. In all other respects unstable is > better. (Security problems, rc bugs not noticed during the first two > weeks, etc.)
But we don't advertize this, so it is natural that people make the mistake and use testing instead of unstable. Friendly, Sven Luther