Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> So if it has taken us 6 months to get the problems with testing-security
> sorted out, what do you suppose we would have done for security support if
> we had frozen and released six months ago, without first sorting out these
> problems?  Gone six months without being able to provide security support
> for stable?  Dropped security support for oldstable without any warning?

I don't think Matthias Urlich was saying we should have released
without autobuilders; he's saying "why don't we have autobuilders,
given that the solutions obvious to me are easy."

Thomas