Re: Future releases of Debian
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:57:24AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:22:18AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > Besides, 871 RC bugs in packages in testing (not counting RC bugs in
> > packages that are only in unstable) [1] won't go away within a few days.
>
> That's true but it's worth looking at which packages are buggy. My
> general experience with looking through the RC bugs list is that for
> most of the pacakges I quite simply don't care if the package is going
> to get removed rather than released. From talking to other people this
> seems to be a common situation. Bugs in packages like that aren't
> *such* a big deal for release as bugs in things like glibc that we can't
> do without.
Where's the big use if you ship 7 CDs but some random packages are not
present?
You might not care, but perhaps thousands of users care.
The "What, Debian 3.1 ships 10 CDs but this common program I need for my
work that was in Debian 3.0 is not included?" would do much harm to the
reputation of Debian.
cu
Adrian
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