Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:39:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:01:34PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:43:48PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> >
> > > And that's exactly the problem. In the past, the testing distribution was
> > > just unstable. At the moment, the unstable distribution is just testing.
> > > The problem is that you can't put a new version in unstable and still fix
> > > the version in testing. With a testing-updates, only used for RC bugfixes,
> > > this wouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > And who is going to test these testing-updates packages before they are
> > allowed into testing?
>
> People who are testing unstable and/or testing at the moment.
How are people running unstable going to get them if they are older than the
version that is in unstable? And what incentive does anyone have to run
testing + testing-updates? People who want to do Debian QA are already
running unstable, and those who want new packages with reduced risk are
running testing or a mixed system.
A testing + testing-updates system would give the worst of testing and
unstable: possibly broken packages that lag behind unstable.
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- mdz
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