On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:42:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:12:10AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > KDE 3 needed a long time until it was hinted into testing. > Ahh, so why did it even needed to be hinted at all? It needed to be hinted because there's a lot of interdependencies between kde packages that it takes too much time to work out automatically (as in more than a day). It was forced because it still had bugs that would make it unacceptable for testing, however for the first time since woody's release they were minor enough to be worth doing. > How much more would testing stay in a releasable state if the manual hinting > wasn't used at all? The main cause of testing not being releasable is that we're not doing a good job of maintaining unstable. We don't have a releasable installer still. We haven't had KDE and all its dependents be free of RC bugs for a single day for the past year and a half. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
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