On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 14:34:04 -0400 Kent Dorfman <kent.dorfman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we have slightly different perceptions of what the scope of > the "testing" release is. Per my understanding of the debian.org wiki > information, it should be a "stable" release, with more frequently > updated packages...thus testing the newer applicaiton packages. > > I'd make a strong argument that removing the common drivers from > whatever kernel is used in "testing" is more an "unstable" action. > > My percpetion of debian/testing was more like fedora without the > ridiculously short release/EOL (forced upgrade) issues. > Testing is effectively a rolling release with periodic freezes, the rest of the time it runs about two weeks behind unstable i.e. anything that survives in unstable for two weeks without really serious bugs showing up gets pushed to testing, except during the pre-release bug-fixing freeze. But at no time should a mature and extremely important device driver get pulled from it. Something has gone wrong here. -- Joe