Re: Plasma desktop unusable in stretch

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 03/09/15 12:49 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote:
> > Am 03.09.2015 um 18:12 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > > > Packages from Debian Unstable enter the next-stable testing distribution
> > > > automatically, when a list of requirements is fulfilled: [...] The package
> > > > does not introduce new release critical bugs.
> > > So and now *who* reports these?
> > >
> > > Then rethink from there.
> > Well, I would expect a minimum of testing from the package maintainers even before a package is uploaded to unstable. I assume for the case at hand that the package maintainers were pretty much aware about the broken KDE desktop.
> The maintainers are well aware that packages may behave badly during
> large transitions and that shouldn't stop them from uploading, as it's the
> only way forward.
Sorry, but before releasing a major package to "testing", shouldn't it 
be tested against the "testing" environment? If a package requires other 
packages from sid to run properly, isn't that a mistake in the 
dependencies list that would be caught by installing the package on 
"testing" from sid?

I know that large tangled transitions can be messy but when faced with 
one, doesn't it make sense to do a little extra testing before letting 
it out? There are a lot of KDE users out there, so this isn't some 
obscure package that affects only a couple of people.