Re: Bits from the RM
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:24:05AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > I'm not too worried about it; both because I think Debian users are
> > generally sensible to be able to understand the tradeoffs amongst stable,
> > testing and unstable, and to make a sensible choice based on that [0],
> > and because the only reason testing will look more like a "real release"
> > is because it's *being* better supported.
> I think the problem is that I don't trust CD publishers to be
> generally sensible. (I trust *users*, I think.)
> CDs are long-lived things... they get put in books and such. My worry
> is that this will happen prematurely, and live way too long...
Ah, yes, there is that. I'd assume we'd call testing CDs something like
"Debian sarge development snapshot, 2002-09-18". You'd be pretty hard
pressed to write a book based on something as dynamic as testing,
I'd think. Dunno.
Cheers,
aj
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