Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?
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From: Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?
Date: 27/09/05 23:55
> Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really
> see it as a problem with testing, or that testing is broken; but rather,
> it seems more like a problem with the idea that stuff like this won't
> happen with testing. In fact, this kind of thing tends to happen quite
> frequently in testing, when testing is far from a planned release as
> stable. It's in the nature of what testing is. Wait for a while and
> it'll sort itself out. If you don't wanna wait a while, stable or
> unstable are for you. Testing is not offered up as a robust distribution,
> and never has been; it's an automated collection of packages drawn from
> unstable that are considered releasable due to certain criteria.
> Sometimes stuff gets by the scripts. Last year, there were extended
> periods where GNOME and KDE were uninstallable out of testing (in KDE's
> case, I'm pretty sure it lasted months). Only after a pre-release
> freeze goes in should testing be considered robust enough to complain
> about stuff like this happening.
I don't believe he was complaining, just making sure that the developers
knew about this as sort of a bug report or something.
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