Re: Drop testing

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org> writes:

>> It may sound a bit radical, but core points have been mentioned in the
>> thread already. I suggest to do it in a more radical way:
>> 
>>  - unstable lockdown in the freeze
>>  - drop Testing and concentrate on work instead of wasting time on
>>    synching stuff. This eliminates the need for testing-security. See
>>    the last part of the paper for details.
>
> Doing this would result in many users who currently run testing fall
> back to stable + backports or switch to another distro (ubuntu being a
> likely candidate), which in turn, would result in less bugreports and a
> less stable distribution.

Very few bug reports from testing users are of any value at all.  They
usually either report some transient dependency problem that the
maintainer can't fix anyway, or report something that has already been
fixed in the unstable package.

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