Re: 2.4.0!

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:44:00PM -0700, Erik wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:20:01PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Well, i dont see XF4.0 getting in, but i almost wish debian would not take the
> attitude of 'all packages are equal,' in what gets in.  IMHO it is perfectly
> fair for a package that a general concensus of linux users feel is an 
> 'important' to get special privlages, like being inserted in the middle of a
> freeze.

The implication is that packages that are generally considered 'important'
need less testing.  I don't buy that.  Something like a new gnome or
a new XFree will need *more* testing than the average package, not less.
They are also highly complex packages.

Richard Braakman