<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > 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
sometimes it may be more like fermenting before it settles. :) i appreciate everything that people do for Debian from the development to the testing to the refinements and even to the sometimes long drawn out discussions about how to do something or how to fix things or make them better. and then those who help the rest of us out and keep us somewhat on the straight and narrow pathway towards nerdvanna. songbird
