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Re: more and more broken packages?



On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:24:35PM +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
If you need to have the stability you are after you should be running the stable/ testing distributions which are not undergoing such a rate of change,

No you should not run testing. Testing is a hole, and shouldn't actually
be run by anyone. The software that's there is there because it compiled
properly a few months ago, when something last made it in. It might be
buggy, it might reformat your hard disk, and it will not and can not be
fixed in the forseeable future.

Mike Stone



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