Re: Testing and honesty
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 06:44:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> Let me start by saying that I basically agree with Ben.
>
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 03:12:04PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>
> > In particular, no guarantees are made that the entire distribution
> > will be 100% release-critical bug-free. All we can assure you is that
> > packages have undergone "some degree of testing" and have fewer
> > release-critical bugs than the versions currently in testing. The way
> ~~~~~~~
>
> Unstable.
>
> > Now, I understand your frustration and disappointment, but I think
> > before using testing, you should have made it your business to read
> > and make sure you understood what we have publicly posted about its
> > readiness for use. Your rant indicates to me that you haven't, or if
> > you have, you have seriously misunderstood what you read.
>
> The thing is, the Debian Project is set up to guarantee that Stable will
> never actually be usable. If you want anything resembling current software,
> you MUST use Unstable or Testing. That makes Testing the de facto "standard
> workstation distribution" for Debian.
>
> I run Stable on the servers I administer, but 100% of them have to use some
> hand-compiled or backported software, or they'd be unusable.
I really don't think that is a completely fair description. For scientific computation,
stable is really quite usable, accept for the absence of a fortran 95 compiler, serious
for some. I am using a very nice DFT tool (extremely fast) that is written exclusively
in fortran 77, so I am, at this point, immune.
The real problem is that there is NO AMD64 stable. I have suggested that someone build
a stable-like AMD-64 that resembles Sarge.
Art Edwards
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