On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:52:14AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:17:40PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > If a broken package is not noticed in unstable, the package must not be > > particularly important to anyone. > > I disagree. > > 1. A package may not be important to developers, but is > still important to users. Alternatively, developers may simply > recompile the package without submitting a bug report. > > A variation on the theme, all the developers who use package > X only do so on platform Y, so it doesn't get tested on other > platforms.
This premise assumes that only developers use unstable, and in my experience this is very far from the truth. > 2. The package may be broken in that it is inconsistant, but still work > fine, or work fine for most features. ...in which case we cannot hope to discover the bugs in it unless someone uses it. -- - mdz
