On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry scribbled: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 17:35, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > If the possibility of eat-your-system bugs in unstable could cost you > > important data or lead to expensive downtime, *don't run unstable on > > those systems*! Being a developer and helping turn unstable into stable > > doesn't mean letting bugs affect your work. > > > > Indeed. Colin Walters (or is it Chris Waters) hasa wonderful howto on his > people.d.o site about how to setup a Debian chroot with debootstrap and > getty. So tty6's getty will log you into a chroot'ed unstable system and say > tty5 could get you into a chroot'ed testing system all the while you are > actually running stable for your day to day tasks. He even explains how to > setup gdm so your X sessions are run from within the chroot. Sweet, I hope some developers will read that howto and work as recommended in it. > Yes some people need to test more. Yes it would be a good thing. But until > we all magically get 5 - 10 hours more a week to dedicate to this project how > about everyone just help out, report the issues found and trying to be > positive. Please, take a while to read my original mail again and another while to study the bugs I mentioned. You will see that there was no way the packages could break that way unless they weren't tested on the maintainer's system. And this is the _only_ thing I'm worried about - there are way too many stupid and upright mistakes in the packages being uploaded. In all the cases I mentioned simple installing of the packages on their system would have taken care of all "bug squashing". That's all I ask - please, please, at least INSTALL the packages you build. thanks, marek
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