Am 02.09.2015 um 19:50 schrieb Gary Dale: > I know I've been using Debian for a long time. That's why I'm amazed that > something this bad is being put into testing. When KDE4 came along, it at > least was fairly stable and usable (if incomplete) before it was moved to > testing. If I wanted bleeding edge software that didn't necessarily work, I > would be running sid or pulling stuff from experimental. > > As your quote says "Those criteria should ensure a good quality for packages > within testing." Putting out a broken desktop can in no way be considered > "good quality". I run testing because I want to test software, not to get mad > at the developers who volunteer their time to get the packages ready for > prime time. In this case the process seems to have misfired by bringing us > the Plasma desktop when it is nowhere near ready. > > This is the third time in the last few weeks that I've been forced to use > Gnome because KDE couldn't do even basic desktop stuff. I suggest that > testing should revert to KDE4, if that is possible, and wait until KDE5 > achieves some level of stability before inflicting it on us again. Let the > brave souls who run sid do what they, not I, signed up for.
I 100% support that statement. On the debian wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting) it says: Packages from Debian Unstable enter the next-stable testing distribution automatically, when a list of requirements is fulfilled: [...] The package does not introduce new release critical bugs. and further [...] so expect that new stable versions of the programs you use will be installed as soon as they are ready for next-stable testing That said, by no means I would expect a completely broken KDE Desktop in testing. Matthias
