Anthony Towns wrote: > The whole point of switching to d-i was to ensure we could maintain our > installer as we developed it -- it should thus be possible to keep doing > betas as support for non-free firmware is developed. > > Is this impossible? Why? Freezing the installer to pull a beta has similar, though lesser effects on development as does to feezing unstable and testing to prepare a release of Debian. The only point in making a beta release is if we have something that we think might be a final release candidate, or that is a useful snapshot to take to get more testing from our users. If the installer is effectively release-ready aside from not supporting non-free firmware, then it's not ready for a final release, and there is no need of wider user testing, so a beta only blocks development and testing of new features for a week or two. -- see shy jo
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