Hello, possibly I should post this to debian-devel rather than to debian-gtk-gnome, but, well I'm not a Debian insider and I don't want to start a flamewar. Therefore I thought it was a good idea to post my remarks to a less frequented list first.
I recently looked at bug pages for some packages the testing version of which is rather outdated, notably mozilla. Mozilla in testing is still back to 2:1.0.0.woody.1.0. When I read the bug reports that appear to be the blockers, I found that many of them were rather unspecific and unreproducible with the latest Mozilla from unstable. There were several reports saying that "Mozilla sucks and it crashes on http://wwww.foobar.com";. I visited the mentioned pages and found that Mozilla 1.2.1 didn't crash at all. Therefore I submitted additional comments to the respective bug reports, suggesting to close them. I find it exeptionally stupid that Mozilla 1.2.1 is kept from entering testing because 9 months ago or so Mozilla 1.0 crashed on Joe Randomuser's box while he was visiting myfunkyhomepage.com. This leads to a deplorable situation where the testing version of Mozilla is in fact the most unstable and insecure version available in Debian: Newer releases that fix bugs including security holes are infinitely blocked from entering testing, not because the newer version is buggier but because old reports are not cleaned up. What can one do to remedy this situation? Any comments greatly appreciated! Thanks, Johannes -- ~/.signature under construction
