Re: Drop testing

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:33:24PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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.

I respectfully disagree here.

With most of my packages, bugs get filed only when the transition to
testing has been complete for quite a while already, except when the bug
is a /really/ severe one (severity grave or critical).

When this is true, it doesn't matter whether the user is a testing one
or an unstable one -- both packages simply are of the same version.

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