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