Re: Debian desktop -situation, proposals for discussion and change. Users point of view.

["Mgr. Peter Tuharsky" <tuharsky@misbb.sk>]

We're going OT, however my experience based on last two Debian releases: 
testing becomes quite "stable in means of usability" somewhere half year 
before it's released as "stable". The sooner before the stable, the 
rapidly increasing is the chance that the snapshot that You have will 
not be installable at all, will have dependencies severely broken, etc.

That's why I suggest: focus on base platform, stabilise it, polish the 
dependencies. Then compile software against it and release it, compile 
newer version and release it, etc.. Desktop software itself shouldn't 
break dependencies.

Peter

Frans Pop  wrote / napísal(a):
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 14:44, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> > Yes, bugs are unavoidable. However, testing is often in situation
> > "whole system broken" or "nearly useless". I see difference here;
> > occassional bug in desktop app is acceptable. Whole system unreliable
> > is not acceptable.
>
> Can you substantiate that? In my experience it is not true.
>
> And even unstable is almost always usable if you know how to avoid 
> temporary uninstability of packages and how to downgrade a package 
> occasionally.
>
> Though I'd not advice running unstable to end users, I would happily 
> suggest testing.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP