Re: Reporting bugs in Stable
On Sunday, 19 April 2020 07:26:31 PDT Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 apr 20, 09:43:46, Carl Fink wrote:
> > So this has bugged me every time I run Debian Stable: you find a bug. You
> > try to report it, and are told not to bother because there's a newer
> > version.
>
> By? I'm guessing you mean the standard request from reportbug to try a
> newer version.
>
> > Why is reportbug even in Stable? Why not just replace it with a script
> > that
> > says "Sorry, bugs in Stable are never fixed. Try Testing." Seriously,
> > that's literally the Debian policy, that only security fixes are done in
> > Stable.
> Actually bugs of severity "important" or higher can be fixed in stable,
> provided certain criteria are met.
>
> > So, actual question: how usable is the current Testing?
Reporting from Debian Sid, everything is quite stable. I do run ZFS on root
and make snapshots prior to big upgrades as a pre-caution, but so far I did
not have a reason to revert anything. I was using Archlinux for a long time,
and I can say that Sid feels more stable than Archlinux, although software is
less fresh. But overall quite usable as a daily driver on my Lenovo X1 Extreme
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Ihor Antonov
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