Re: A strawman proposal: "testing-x86" (Was: security in testing)
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 09:14, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I've solved the problem for myself by just simply biting the bullet
> and using unstable. I either have gotten lucky, or maintainers of
> core packages have gotten much more careful about testing their
> packages before uploading, so I haven't gotten screwed by updates as
> often as I did before.
I think the latter is generally the case. People who upload broken
stuff to unstable get berated pretty heavily.
> So here are my questions. Is the "testing-x86 distribution" a crazy
> idea? How hard would it be to implement it?
Actually adding a distribution is pretty easy. All it really needs is
Packages and Sources files for the most part, which are very small
relative to the archive size.
The only negative consequence I can think of is that the real testing
would probably get less, well, testing.
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