Why was etch released as stable if it still has bugs?
Why was etch released as stable if it still has bugs?
I looked in both debian-release and debian-user
mailing lists, but I still can not find any info as to
why it was released with rc (release-critical) bugs.
I'm pretty sure previous debian stable releases where
not made until rc bugs were at 0.
You can see on the chart at:
bugs.debian.org/release-critical that at the release
of sarge the release-critical bugs were at 0, but you
see etch was released with several.
Someone mentioned on irc.freenode.net/#debian that
these are probably minor bugs that will be fixed with
updates/upgrades, but these can't be so minor as they
are listed as release critical bugs that seem to still
exist.
Debian is know to be the most rock solid distro in
terms of stability, but if debian is releasing stable
while there are known release-critical bugs does this
mean that debian is beginning to go the way of other
distributions (many other distributions that I've
tried release a stable version that doesn't come
anywhere near debian in terms of stability)?
So far debian seems to be on it's own as far as being
the most stable distro. The only distro I've found
that comes close as far as stability is Gentoo, but
even Gentoo seems to not close the gap as well as I'd
prefer (when doing some updates).
I hope I'm missing something here because after trying
several distros debian is my favorite, but being able
to check bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ and seeing
that the number of bugs was 0 at the release of Sarge
is an example of what I like about debian (not being
in a hurry to release so as to only release when there
are virtually no important bugs). It seemed like being
able to see 0 rc bugs on the chart was a pretty
transparent way of showing how stable debian is.
Please note I mean this as not a flame as I'm very
pleased with debian in general and I've been using
sarge as testing for a while and it had been running
without any major setbacks. Etch is a great distro and
I would recommend it as the preferred gnu/linux distro
for anyone.
Is there anywhere else besides
bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ where one can show
how stable the stable release of debian is?
Thank's and please keep up the good work.
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