Re: General unstability on wheezy (unstable repository)

[Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir@sfr.fr>]

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 20:56 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:59:03PM +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > During the last few months I've been experiencing an increasing
> > instability on my systems running wheezy. This used to be a good quality
> > repository and good compromise between stability and new features for a
> > desktop usage.
>
> Please don't confuse "unstable" with buggy. In the Debian sense it means
> "constantly changing", "moving state". Whereas stable means "not changing",
> "known state".
I'm speaking about "testing" not "unstable". It used to be quite stable and works well for the last 5 years.
Now, it is unstable in the sense that there are many critical bugs that were introduced recently.
For me such regressions should remain in "sid" and not go into "testing".

Cheers,

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