On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Wouter Verhelst [Sun, Oct 24 2004, 11:41:33AM]:
>
> > > 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).
>
> Counter example: you fix a bug in Sid but insufficiently (and you do not
> know for sure). Few users continue reporting bugs in the Testing
> version. You ask them to test the Sid version. But Sid scares them
In that case, you build a package against the testing libraries, upload
that to your people.d.o webspace, and ask them to test that.
If they are not willing to test that either, then they are not helpful
and you cannot fix the bugs that bother them. This will stay the same
regardless of whether or not there is a testing.
> and they promise to wait for the update to be in Sid. Then, you will
> wait weeks for the acknoledgement and the bug may still be in Testing
> in this time. And it will take another two weeks for a real fix to
> slip into Testing.
>
> That is not fun. That is overhead which creates confusion.
Because you're doing it wrong.
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