Re: GNOME 2.2.1 summary 15/03/2003

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>]

<quote who="Graham Wilson">

> > > sebastian, are you working on this?
> > 
> > It would be highly inappropriate to update this to the unstable 2.x
> > port.
> 
> why is that?

It's both unstable [1] and has regressions in functionality due to its
in-development status.

- Jeff

[1] There's a big difference between uploading 'beta' or 'release candidate'
quality packages to unstable as preparation for big migrations to uploading
unstable, in-development software. Most software authors have testing
vectors that don't involve distros, so even the "but it gets wider testing"
excuse is not a very good one. Plus Debian doesn't build with debugging
symbols, regardless of package stability. :-)

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