On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:32:49AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:14:16PM +0800, hlyg wrote: > > it seems that x.1 are really stable while x are beta release > > That is not by design, but by largely unavoidable consequence, and > so a Debian stable release is not considered a "beta" ion any > respect.
I think that the best correspondence to the "beta" idea in Debian is the freeze process (explained here [1] for buster). So x.0 is considered "release quality". The freeze process is designed to cope with the specialties of a big and complex software distribution, where you want its many interdependent parts to "settle" in "layers", starting from the most fundamental ones and propagating to the "leaves". Cheers [1] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html -- t
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