On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:12:57AM -0800, Stephen Birch wrote: > Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46: > > That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because > > a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to > > testing > > anymore, and when it finally did, the changes were so dramatic > > that > > testing was broken for quite some time. > > Hmmm .. I didnt know that testing was originally a non-RC distribution > although I have heard of the glibc pain.
Again, I'm not entirely sure this is exactly what happened; but I am quite sure this is what /will/ happen if we go down that road. > > b) Some RC bugs are only discovered when they migrate to testing. If > > the > > promise of 'prestable' would be that it would contain NO RC BUGS, > > then we would have to throw those out. That would likely result > > in > > prestable being a very incomplete system. > > ahh .. I take your point. What about the idea of identifying a list of > release essential (RE) packages? Is that the mechanism actually used > to determine the relase point when testing is frozen? You should ask the release managers about that. -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune