Re: Drop testing
Hi, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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.
You can't fix *this* dependency problem easily, but you can fix the *next*
one, by telling the maintainers in question that they should be somewhat
more careful. Plus, if there was no Testing, the transient problem
may well become a semi-permanent one.
As for reporting bugs fixed in Unstable: presumably, after Sarge there
will be a version-aware BTS for Debian, so that the person using Testing
will still see the bug report and thus can upgrade that package from
Unstable; apt-preferences are your friend. ;-)
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