Re: Wish: Unfreeze Woody and start anew
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:17:38PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm hoping that all the changes made after potato will finally pay off.
> > We'll finally have a testing built upon stable,
> I understood that the current testing *was* built upon stable. However,
> we'll have a testing built upon a much more consistent stable.
It was, but unstable had already had a year to diverge from stable (the
potato freeze plus the time to roll out the first generation of package
pools and the testing scripts), so while the details might be incorrect,
the sentiment's probably reasonable.
> > Hopefully, the number of RC bugs will remain low. We managed to get from
> > around 500 to under 100 in a few short months; if we can keep it under
> > 300, I think we will have a releasable distrobution in a year or so.
> Bear in mind that the figure on http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
> only considers packages in woody; much of the decrease came from simply
> removing packages.
We can remove packages from testing if we feel the need though, so it's
still a fair point.
Cheers,
aj
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