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Re: Debian doesn't have to be slower than time.



On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:28:07PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> I think ideally the stable release would operate just like the testing
> release, but instead of having a 10 day window to proove itself stable
> should require a package to have been in testing for a longer time,
> maybe 30 or 60 days (more?). It would give end users a rolling stable

Well, it seems this is exactly what was presented to me as an plus in
FreeBSD. :-)

> release which would make it on average the most upto date stable release
> of any distro, and buggy packages wouldnt make it in, or be removed.

But what if there's a release critical bug coming up in libc while it
already is in stable?

Michael
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