On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:48:33AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > While I can sympathize with this (it's what I want as a developer), it's > certainly not a good idea in Debian in general: we have many derivatives > taking unstable/testing at various points in time, and we also want to make > testing generally usable by end-users. > > So it's best if you consider unstable always in production-mode by default.
I disagree with this. We expect *our* users of sid to use things like apt-listbugs and to be wary of blindly upgrading. I think we should hold downstream distributions to higher standards. If a downstream distribution blindly accepts a libc from sid and it doesn't do what they want, imho that's their fault. Especially with a core package. I'm concerned that this attitude, if adopted elsewhere, would paralyze Debian development, for fear of inconveniencing other distributions. -- Jon Dowland -- 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/20110504135835.gb4...@deckard.alcopop.org
