Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Vincent L. Mulhollon" <vlm@execpc.com> wrote:
>I had a similar thought this weekend.
>
>Perhaps any package can live in unstable, but any package that has a
>release critical bug older than 1 week is zapped from stable and placed back
>in unstable.  Upon next package upload, it will be reinstated into stable.
>
>New packages would not be allowed into stable until x days had passed in
>unstable status without a Release Critical Bug.

[etc.]

Those who do not understand ajt's "testing" distribution are doomed to
reinvent it, poorly. :)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]