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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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       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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