On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:12:33PM -0400, icelinux@icelinux.net wrote: > Quoting "Roberto C. Sánchez" <roberto@connexer.com>: > > >The same > >exact thing could be said of Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and any of a > >number of other packages which received tremendous testing upstream. > >None of them have empty pages on bugs.d.o. > > Are these packages which have been packaged upstream for Debian as > well? I am sure there is never an empty page of bugs for most software. > * So, you are attempting to find all of the bugs before a release > instead of having to patch afterward? > * Does this actually reduce the number of bugs, or does it just take longer? > I have found several already since I began working on my Deb-Ice > project. I believe a lot are being missed in the underused packages. > Packaging for Debian != testing for bugs with Debian. They are two independent activities. The objective is to identify/fix as many bugs as possible prior to release. I hope that as you find bugs you file the appropriate bug reports against the offending packages. You make a good observation about the underused packages. However, the same can be said of all software. The less used a particular part is, the less likely it is to be the focus of testing and the less likely it is that bugs will be discovered in that part. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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