Re: potato->woody upgrade.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:21:49PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > There's been a big reorganisation. woody is no longer called unstable (sid is)
> > > but testing. It's been reverted to the packages from potato and will be filled
> > > up with packages from unstable which don't have (too many) critical bugs. I
> > > guess it's again a problem of the PPC autobuilder lagging (if there is even
> > > any for testing yet?).
> >
> > OK, this one I -refuse- to take the blame for! :)
>
> No one tried to blame you ...
Just joking... People have gotten very attached to blaming the
autobuilder, and I was amused to see one that wasn't actually its
fault.
> If testing was just another distribution nickname we should probably set
> up another autobuilder for it. As you explained, it isn't. What we
> probably need to reconsider is the restriction on testing WRT packages
> having no or little release critical bugs in all architectures. Otherwise
> testing is going to be useless - I don't know about ARM but the situation
> on m68k is currently so bad that I'd not count on things like a new libc
> being built and tested fast enough so that it doesn't hold up the other
> archs for multiple weeks. We have one autobuilder run by Roman Hodek, and
> one fast developer machine run by Christian Steigies, that's all.
That's my concern with the design as well. As I see it, it's not meant
so much for regular use as for helping release management; for that
role, it ought to work excellently.
Dan
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