On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:17:44PM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: > Hi! > > Now for about two weeks there have been many packages out of testing. I'm > must wondering what's the point? Those missing packages prevent me from > upgrading because there are many among those which I desperatily need and I > don't want to start hacking apt. Wouldn't it be better to have an unstable > version of packages in testing than no version at all! > Certainly not. If you want unstable packages, then use *unstable*. If you want to help test the next Debian release, then use *testing*. If you want something that will always work, then use *stable*. > Okay, you are pros, I'm just a newbie and there must be a good reason for > this, this situation is just irritating. Maybe you could consider having > four versions > of debian in transition phase, like: stable, testing, testing-new, unstable. > And when 99.5% packages would have entered testing-new it could replace > testing. Just an idea, maybe it would just make things too complicated for > developers and maintainers. > Please do a quick Google search. This topic has been rehashed many many many many (did I mention many?) times over the past few years. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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