testing

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sat Jul 30 16:24:50 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:38:11PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >The advantage of providing testing is basicaly to offer a "stable" system 
> >to
> >show newbie users so that they don't run away scared at the horrid 
> >combination
> >of:
> >
> >  - Generic Debian sid problems like those caused by new dpkg, new gcc-4.0,
> >    new libstdc++6, etc.
> >  - Our own genuine GNU/kFreeBSD bugs.
> >
> >What do you people think?
> 
> Well, that could be a good idea if it almost take no time to implement. 
> Don't forgot we have other things to do in the port, and that a user 
> scared by sid, will probably be scared by our installer (if we could 
> call that an intaller).

Uhm I have to agree with you.  Perhaps it'll be a good idea once we have d-i,
and once we can build a working system using "testing" without "unreleased".

-- 
Robert Millan



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