Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > That is, there shouldn't be any reason to run r0 instead of r1 or r3 > instead of r8. Other way around: there shouldn't be a reason to run rN instead of r(N-x) as well except for bugfixes. This is still potato folks, not potato-and-a-half or so. > Even adding alternative packages is a little risky: given a choice > between postgresql 7 and postgresql 6, most people are going to just > choose 7, although its likely to have had very little testing to see > that it upgrades cleanly, and integrates well with everything else. > > So I probably didn't emphasise one thing about any new features people might > want added: they have to be *very* bug free and *very* well tested. > > Of the above: > > * mozilla has 2 grave and 1 important bug (of which at least 71044 > is probably real) I'm not sure this is valid, M17 really has a lot less bugs then M14 and no new ones as far is I can see. Strictly speaking we shouldn't update it though. > * postgresql has 3 important bugs (one of which is just closed, and > the other two of which seem to be the same, but are at least real) It's a new major upstream version, which hasn't been fieldtested very long yet, has an upgrade-path that isn't what it should be yet, etc. In other words imnsho it should definitely not be put into potato. > * kdebase has an important bug, and hasn't had enough testing within > Debian I really don't think we should move a beta version of a complete new desktop environment into potato, no matter how popular it is. > * there seem to be a good dozen RC bugs against the various woody > Gnome/GTK packages Woody seems to have moved to development gnome stuff which is alpha or barely beta quality. Moving that to potato would be a Bad Thing indeed. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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