Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling
Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net> writes:
> On Thu July 22 2010 05:21:09 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> But on testing, it's been rock-solid for me for years. It's not just
>> somewhat less breakage. I think it's almost no breakage. Occasionally
>> packages get stranded for a long time at back revs because of various
>> migration problems, and once or twice I've had to pin something
>> (usually because of non-free drivers like fglrx or nvidia that aren't
>> really part of Debian), but it's an experience that I can comfortably
>> recommend.
> I've been bitten too many times by the "We removed X from Testing for
> internal release master reasons - please don't imagine Testing is
> intended for real users" syndrome.
Why do you care if they temporarily removed X? I mean, yes, that's a real
pain if that happens during the window when you're trying to install a new
system, and I suppose that could happen, but you have to get pretty
unlucky. Nearly all of the time, you have X already installed, so what
difference does it make if it's not available from the repository for a
little bit? It doesn't break the packages already on your system. (In
fact, this is usually done to ensure that things sequence such that
upgrades *won't* break the packages already on your system.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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