On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:40:02PM -0400, andrea.glorioso@centrotemporeale.it wrote: > >>>>> "jc" == Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es> writes: > > jc> In that case I would rather base my releases based upon debian > jc> stable, since releasing a set of products/packages based on a > jc> specific prone-to-bugs release of testing or unstable distros > jc> (meaning that you cannot install the packages after few days > jc> due to a gcc/libc/other transition) could lead to disaster. > > I thought that packages entering testing were bug-free wrt > grave > severity bugs, and that an unstallable package does qualify as a grave > bug. Am I missing something? Actually I was thinking about following > testing, so your statement perplexed me a bit. At the moment, because of the gcc transition, we have a libc6 package (2.3.1, IIRC) stalled in unstable. New packages compiled against that particular version of libc6 won't enter testing, even though they might be solving security/other bugs encountered in old (read already in testing) packages. That kind of situation would lead you to release something based on a broken release of Debian. HTH mooch -- Jesus Climent | Unix SysAdm | Helsinki, Finland | pumuki.hispalinux.es GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #66350 proudly using Debian Sid & Linux 2.4.20 If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. --Minister (A clockwork orange)
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