Re: ocaml-3.06 3.06-16 ready to be tested ...
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:44:15PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:10:26PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> >> Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> >>
> >> >> So, it doesn't break anything and this is what we want (that is, we can
> >> >> never have 3.06-built libs and ocaml 3.07 installed at a time).
> >> >
> >> > Yes, that is what we decided previously, you were the one asking about
> >> > it. Also, i was thinking about easying the unstable->testing migration.
> >>
> >> What I described is the same migration scheme as many apps in Debian.
> >
> > Yes, and with the problems of all debian packages. It means we need to
> > have all the libraries and all the ocaml binary packages and ocaml ready
> > to enter testing at the same time.
>
> Forget about testing, transitions happen in unstable.
> We don't have to work around testing flaws; testing doesn't work;
> testing doesn't make a better release.
Yes, a two stage testing would be nice, one for the base system and
build-essential, and the other for the rest of the stuff. That said, if
you do this, you will not catch the bugs unless you build every package
two times.
> most of the problems we have today come from testing which should be
> deeply reworked.
Well, the only problem is the buggy libc6.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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