Re: Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 02:19:05PM -0500, Seth M. Landsman wrote:
> > > May be these chickens are people who have some work to do. These
> > > sarcasms or those of Edward Betts will not convince people that
> > > Debian is a serious distribution, intended for real work.
> > If you need your machine for "real work" then you shouldn't be
> > running unstable.
> If debian unstable isn't tested on machines used for real
> work, debian is going to end up a toy distribution which is only
> suitable for work on systems which aren't appropriate for real work.
Well, you can't have it both ways. At the very least, you should be
prepared to interrupt your "real work" to fix your broken system.
Or maybe you wait till later in the development cycle to bring your
machine up to unstable...
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