Re: Firefox, the Release and what should a debian developer do?

[Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de>]

* Clint Adams wrote:
> > That's what it's for; and that's how the GNOME team recently
> > tested GNOME 2.6 before they uploaded it to unstable.
> 
> That is NOT what it's for. That is just how people seem to abuse it
> these days.

,----[ Developer's Reference ]-
| The experimental distribution is a special distribution. It is not a
| full distribution in the same sense as `stable' and `unstable' are.
| Instead, it is meant to be a temporary staging area for highly
| experimental software where there's a good chance that the software
| could break your system, or software that's just too unstable even for
| the unstable distribution (but there is a reason to package it
| nevertheless).
`----

Norbert