On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Mike Bird wrote: > We actually have a few Testing packages (e.g. WordPress) in our > mostly-Stable servers and we backup copies of those Testing packages > both on-site and off-site against the vagaries of the Testing > masters.
This is why snapshot.debian.org exists. If a package disappears from testing, you can now retrieve it from there. Testing's primary purpose is as a staging ground for the next release; while it'd be nice to try to keep it working as a fully installable version all of the time, progress to the next release is more important than that. Don Armstrong -- You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in the corner of a lab somewhere with a Soxhlet apparatus in one hand, a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant money. -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100722215110.gd31...@rzlab.ucr.edu
