Re: Drop testing
* Eduard Bloch (edi@gmx.de) [041025 15:00]:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Joey Hess [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 08:36:18PM]:
>
> > > not look appear as critical for maintainer, or not important enough to touch
> > > package in the holy "frozzen" state). Such bugs are a disaster, they make
> > > our definition of a Stable release absurd. Yes, Debian Stable has become a
> > > buggy stable release. Just face it.
> >
> > AIUI, you propose to freeze unstable and go back to the old method of
> > having updates during the freeze be manually put in at the discretion of
> > the Release Managers. If we did that, how would one of these "ugly bugs"
> > be any more likely to be fixed in frozen unstable than it is in today's
> a) The release time would be shorter
I would like to see a prove of this.
> b) It would be up to humans (and not some obscure scripts) to decide whether the bugs deseves a fix or not
This is already the case. If the humans decide that a bug should be
fixed, they can either just do it, or at least upgrade the bug to
RC-grade. If they decide that it is actually not so bad that it requires
a fix for the release, they could downgrade it.
Cheers,
Andi
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