On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:18:37AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > You propose to eliminate "stable" as a release. To keep > > people from hurting themselves. Especially unwitting > > "auto-updating" ID10Ts. Ok, let me get this > > straight... How is this a good thing? Paul Condon opined: > Greg, > In fairness to Max, he surely did not have in mind > possible confusion by an experienced Admin who is new to > Debian, but rather a simple user who is working in an > environment where he must act as his own Admin. Yeah, what he said. :-) I'm pointing out that the `stable' distro becomes massively unstable periodically. Admitted, that period is on the order of multiple years, but it _is_ being shortened. Additionally, the people least likely to be able to handle a badly- or non-working system are the ones most likely to be blind-sided by it. Paul E Condon wrote: > To reorganize the internals would involve a lot of work. Touche'. John L Fjellstad wrote: > If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove > 'testing' too. I don't think that follows. If someone, even a newbie, signs up for `testing', they've got to know there's going to be a bumpy ride. -- Best wishes, Max Hyre
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