Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:18:56PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> You do realize that not everything in the archives goes through the
> buildds? 

Yes. That's another problem.

> The whole point of the unstable->testing->stable system to get a stable,
> tested, consistent, releasable OS. A subgoal is to keep RC bugs out of
> testing. How do get that if the packages don't actually *use* unstable?

By having developers test & use unstable. I can make a similar assertion
of the sort "how do we get testing tested if the packages don't actually
*use* testing?"

Mike Stone