Le 19/07/2024 à 05:12, songbird a écrit :
The Wanderer wrote:
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By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are
volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they
reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the
archive can stop the package versions which those issues from migrating
to testing. Ideally, you are also volunteering to be one of those who
helps the package maintainers track down and fix the issues.
there is no such contract. just like Debian Developers and
other volunteers are not forced to do work they would not wish
to do. however, Debian Developers and others do have a social
agreement and other rules they do pledge to abide by.
You are perfectly right: there is no contract and one i free to use
which Debian distro one wants to...
a simple user? anyone using any version, there's no contract
we agree to for such use.
[...]
... but to me that seems ignoring what appears (to me, again) the main
goal of Debian: to provide a *stable* *user* (i.e.: to be used) distro.
A mean to this goal is to provide *testers* a way to test preparation of
the next stable release with, first, an *unstable* distro, and then a
*testing* distro.
The names of Debian distros are a down-to-earth declaration of intent:
- Stable is meant to be usable and stable
- Testing is meant to be tested
- Unstable is not meant to be stable
- Sid is the guy in the movie who *breaks* his toys
So if one chooses to *use* anything other than Stable, basically, one is
not considered a user but a tester:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/choosing.en.html
To me a common misconception is to compare Debian
Unstable(+Experimental) to, say, the main distro of Archlinux or
Opensuse Tumbleweed, because they are rolling release distros.
For example, Archlinux has Stable repositories, and also have Testing
and Staging repositories.
The warning in Archlinux is as clear (to me) as in Debian: Stable is
meant to be used, Testing and Staging are meant to be tested, "users" of
these repositories are de facto, from Arch POV, considered testers.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#
All that does *not* prevent nor forbid someone to *use* anything else
than the Stable channel of Debian or Arch, obviously :-)
