Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

[Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> source packages that need to be updated!  As a result, the release
>> team asks that the maintainers refrain from uploads of these packages for
>> any reason without coordination with the release team, until this
>> transition completes; uncoordinated uploads will most likely lead to your
>> package being removed from testing to let the transition complete.
>
> On the other hand testing is a way for out users to have a
> not-so-unstable, and not-so-outdated system. It is also a way to have
> our distribution well tested. However, from what I heared, a lot of
> users currently consider testing has broken, due to a lot of missing
> packages. gimp-print for example has been removed from testing during
> one month or so, rending the printing from gimp impossible.

I guess that you can assume that many testing users know how to get one or the 
other package from unstable when necessary. If not, they shouldn't use 
testing as that was always kind of necessary. This might not fit the purpose 
of testing but that's how it is.
However, testing still prevents from fighting with the nastiest bugs.

HS

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