On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Vincent L. Mulhollon wrote: > Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a > release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back > in unstable. Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable.
That wont help very much because the users who have installed the package will have the buggy version anyway. On the other hand disappearing and reappearing packages (especially in the stable distribution) will confuse the users and break dependencies. Bugs in stable packages are bad, but as long as they are no security related or data corrupting bugs we have to live with them. For security or data corrupting bugs we have to use out of band methods for pushing fixes/warnings anyway. Of course in that case it might be wort to actually plug the unfixed packages from the distribution to avoid bad informed/educated usrs to run into a trap. Greetings Bernd