Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:35:18PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:35:18 +0800
> From: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
> Subject: Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert
> To: debian-newmaint@lists.debian.org
>
> On 01/05/2012 09:33 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > Unstable is, well, unstable, yikes!
> >
>
> FYI, unstable means *changes* often, not *breaks* often.
> Issues in it are *not* a normal thing.
>
Actually, unstable means both in Debian. Historically, you
expect stable to not change and not break, testing to change
some and not break, and unstable to change often and not always
work properly.
The nickname for unstable is "SID" - still in development, not
beta, not gold. From the Debian website[1]:
"sid" is subject to massive changes and in-place library updates.
This can result in a very "unstable" system which contains packages
that cannot be installed due to missing libraries, dependencies that
cannot be fulfilled etc. Use it at your own risk!
Pat
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/
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