Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:20:51 +0200, Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr> said:
>
>> Debian developers, on the contrary, run unstable and rarely run
>> testing, which means that they don't really know about the shape of
>> what they release.
>
> The reason I run unstable is because tat is where I upload
> to -- and that is where the shared libs are that my packages use, and
> that is where I work out the bugs experienced. However, testing does
> not seem to be too far off from unstable in the packages I use a
> lot.
There are package that never enter testing and nobody notice because
everyone use unstable (sometimes because of buggy dependencies).
>> The Testing distribution helped a lot in release
>> management, especially for synchronizing architectures. Some
>> improvements have already been proposed by Eduard Bloch and Adrian
>> Bunk: freezing unstable while keeping testing. Freezing unstable
>> forces people to work on fixing bugs, and the quicker the bugs are
>> fixed, the quicker the distribution is released and the quicker
>
> This is a fallacy. In the past, when we did freeze unstable,
> it never forced me to do anything but twidle my thumbs for months
> until things got moving again. The reason that freezing unstable did
> not make me fix any more bugs, since the bugs were not in packages I
> was in any way an expert in.
>
> Freezes just used to be a frustrating, prolonged period in
> which I did no Debian work at all, waiting for unstable to thaw back
> out.
Because you always took properly care of your packages. It wouldn't
be necessary if everyone fixes bugs in packages ones maintain.
cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
http://marant.org
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