Re: Where is Debian going?
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 14:33, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> Em Qua, 2002-07-10 às 12:10, Josip Rodin escreveu:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:45:30PM +0200, giuseppe bonacci wrote:
> > > 3. a `testing' distr., which seems to be something in between, in
> > > that software versions have been frozen several months ago, and
> > > there is plenty of pending bugs.
> >
> > This statement is nearly false. testing is currently frozen because
> > it's due to be released. Normally, it's not frozen. Yes, it's
> > taking us some time. But maybe, just maybe, that's because we're
> > doing it for the first time?
>
> This is one thing that I really don't understand. If woody is frozen
> because it's due to be released, why it isn't in a frozen dist, and
> testing goes on with the new software?
> (i've read (and started) some threads about the structure, but i
> didn't get the point)
There is no such a thing as a "frozen dist". Frozen means, if I
understood it correctly, that no new features or upgrades are
added, only bugfixes.
Woody is now testing frozen, will become stable when released, and
only then, a new testing will be started.
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