Re: 2.4.0!

["Juergen A. Erhard" <jae@ilk.de>]

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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> writes:

    Christoph> Maybe we could make a distinction between

    Christoph> 1. Upstream software (which has already gone through a
    Christoph> lot of testing upstream and sidestreams in RH, SUSE
    Christoph> etc). It is highly unlikely that such software will
    Christoph> contain major bugs. There could be configuration
    Christoph> problems.

I'll add 3. here:

3. Upstream bugfix releases... like the just-released gtk 1.2.8 that
   will *not* happen to appear in potato.  Which really is a shame...

    Christoph> 2. Debian native software which needs extensive
    Christoph> testing. This would include debconf, packaging tools,
    Christoph> boot floppies, special scripts and other native
    Christoph> packages. Native software might only be testing within
    Christoph> Debian and is therefore much more fragile.

There's also a big difference between packages that only depend on
others and packages that have many others depend on 'em.  The former
doesn't break a lot usually (okay, breakage in a webserver like Apache
is a lot more important than breakage in s.th. as unfinished as
Abiword (IMHO)).  The latter can break many things...

I do think re-evaluating this would make sense... if we *want* to.

Oh, and not discouraging (or even flaming) people who do s.th. like
Slink-and-a-half would help a lot too... (I still can't fathom why
this went as it went... and where it *is* (knghtbrd's right))

Bye, J

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