Re: weired packages policy

[John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>]

Tom Furie writes:
> If you are looking for bleeding edge (bear in mind it's called
> bleeding edge for a reason), and are comfortable with fixing breakages
> or can configure around breakage until it's fixed then sid may be the
> path to take. If you are looking to test the next stable-in-waiting,
> and are prepared to deal with breakages (which can, and do happen)
> taking longer to be (potentially) fixed than in sid then testing is
> the path to take.

An important distinction is that no package can migrate to Testing
unless all its dependencies can be satisfied.  That is not true of
Unstable.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA