Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:56:31 -0300, Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> said:
jh> When we used to freeze unstable before a release, one of the
jh> problems was that many updates were blocked by that, and once the
jh> freeze was over, unstable tended to become _very_ unstable, and
jh> took months to get back into shape.
> Sure but not we have the experimental distribution to deal with it
We've always had experimental. But consider this: experimental
contains packages _known_ to be volatile, and nobody sane has
experimental turned on for their boxes (most people cherry pick a
package or two that they are interested in). Secondly, buildd's do
not work with experimental.
> while we are stabilizing the unstable and testing distribution. The
> current problem is experimental is not a full distribution and
> doesn't have buildd systems.
That too. If packages don't get tested, you have indeed
arrested development.
manoj
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