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Re: Drop testing



On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:57:05PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Marco d'Itri [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 10:06:24PM]:
> > On Oct 23, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > ABSTRACT
> > You are trying to force developers to work on item x, which they dislike,
> > by forcing them to not work on item y, which they like more. You are
> > apparently oblivious to the fact that most developers will probably
> > spend their time on item w (which is probably not a Debian task), which
> 
> At least they won't poison Sid with fresh things that may others life
> more difficult. Eg. new library versions.
> 
> > they like less than x but still more than y. So this will at least fail,
> > and probably hurt debian too.
> 
> Maybe. What is the alternative? Continue with the current method and
> release Edge... 2009 or so?

Improve the way testing works. There are flaws, nobody is contesting
that; but just dropping the whole idea because of them flaws is akin to
throwing away the child with the bath water.

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