On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:20:51 +0200, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Debian developers, on the contrary, run unstable and rarely run
> testing, which means that they don't really know about the shape of
> what they release.
The reason I run unstable is because tat is where I upload
to -- and that is where the shared libs are that my packages use, and
that is where I work out the bugs experienced. However, testing does
not seem to be too far off from unstable in the packages I use a
lot.
> The Testing distribution helped a lot in release
> management, especially for synchronizing architectures. Some
> improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and Adrian
> Bunk: freezing unstable while keeping testing. Freezing unstable
> forces people to work on fixing bugs, and the quicker the bugs are
> fixed, the quicker the distribution is released and the quicker
This is a fallacy. In the past, when we did freeze unstable,
it never forced me to do anything but twidle my thumbs for months
until things got moving again. The reason that freezing unstable did
not make me fix any more bugs, since the bugs were not in packages I
was in any way an expert in.
Freezes just used to be a frustrating, prolonged period in
which I did no Debian work at all, waiting for unstable to thaw back
out.
manoj
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