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Re: [Galeon-devel] Re: galeon (not) in Debian stable



On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:31:01AM +0100, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> > > - I'm releasing cvs snapshots weekly (ish). Every one fixes bugs and
> > >   brings improvements and new features. When do we stop doing this and
> > >   say this version will go into sarge? We cannot release with a cvs
> > >   snapshot from a few weeks before sarge is relased 
> 
> The problem with release CVS snapshots is that that is what they are,
> you can't expect a snapshot to be as stable as a proper release. For
> instance the latest snapshot 20030813 has quite a major bug that causes
> lockups and crashes.

Notice that aj said in :

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200308/msg03292.html

  |> I intended to include both wl and wl-beta in Debian unstable/
  |> testing/stable.
  |
  |Why? If wl-beta is Debian release-quality, why would anyone want to
  |use wl? Are you doing this for the benefit of users, or because you're
  |worried you might be guessing wrong, or because it's what upstream
  |prefers, or what?

So, i don't think he would agree to be the reason for removing galeon
from unstable because it is a cvs snapshot.

Friendly,

Sven Luther




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