On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:37:46PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I agree completely. With our current testing setup this shouldn't be too > > difficult to do. > > It's already pretty split-up: we have base, we have standard, and we That's what I meant to say. The only think we don't have is the release of base/standard without extra etc. > But it's not possible to just maintain those packages and completely > ignore everything else: updates to packages in base (libstdc++, eg) can > easily make packages outside base unusable, and screw things up there. Sure. That's not how I understood Mike's proposal. > You can solve this by *completely ignoring* the extra set of packages > (ie not distributing them at all), but you can't divide them up and get > rid of the complexity, particularly. Once again I agree. And I do not think ignoring extra makes sense at all. It's just that an extra package should not prevent us from a new "core" release. How about a new "core" consisting of base/standard every 6 months and a new full release every year. The full release could then be based on the next to last "core" release. > > Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! > > For example, postgresql has a bunch of serious and grave bugs that've > been open for over a month, that, afaict, no one's doing anything about, That's new to me. Yes, I've been too busy to follow thinks closely enough, but the last time I checked therer was just one about an upgrade problem. I didn't even know that noone works on it. Right now I am downloading PostgreSQL bug reports. Also I thought I subscribed to debian-postgres but either it's dead or my subscription did not work as I got no mail at all. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
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