Re: [hertzog@debian.org: Re: Woody retrospective and Sarge introspective]
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Ryan Murray wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:25:37PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Now that woody is released, it's not useful anymore of course. But
while
Then why do we even have a stable distribution, if the attitude of
maintainers
is that work on keeping it maintained is not useful anymore?
Of course, a major design goal for stable is that we leave well alone.
There's very little doing with it since we refuse to fix almost all bugs
there.
unstable has it's name for a reason. Many people don't seem to
understand
that, and remain calm when everything blows up around them. Instead
they
send a screaming rant of a bug report with high severity, which makes
the
maintainer not want to treat unstable as what it's description says it
is.
You have to draw a balance between doing things that might not work and
toasting people's systems - we do want people to run unstable and we do
want developers to have something that hangs together reasonably well to
develop against. Unfortunately for a few packages like X this means that
even in unstable there are some kinds of breakage that can't be readily
tolerated.
--
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