* Eduard Bloch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041025 15:00]: > #include <hallo.h> > * Joey Hess [Sat, Oct 23 2004, 08:36:18PM]: > > > > not look appear as critical for maintainer, or not important enough to > > > touch > > > package in the holy "frozzen" state). Such bugs are a disaster, they make > > > our definition of a Stable release absurd. Yes, Debian Stable has become a > > > buggy stable release. Just face it. > > > > AIUI, you propose to freeze unstable and go back to the old method of > > having updates during the freeze be manually put in at the discretion of > > the Release Managers. If we did that, how would one of these "ugly bugs" > > be any more likely to be fixed in frozen unstable than it is in today's
> a) The release time would be shorter I would like to see a prove of this. > b) It would be up to humans (and not some obscure scripts) to decide whether > the bugs deseves a fix or not This is already the case. If the humans decide that a bug should be fixed, they can either just do it, or at least upgrade the bug to RC-grade. If they decide that it is actually not so bad that it requires a fix for the release, they could downgrade it. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
