On February 1, 2018 8:24:05 PM UTC, Abou Al Montacir <abou.almonta...@sfr.fr> wrote: >On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 12:23 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 11:10 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: >> > In general I agree with this as a DD, but when I wear my user hat I >don't. >> >> I disagree, I'm afraid. As a user, the speed in which we do removals >> from testing or unstable shouldn't matter to you. What matters is >that >> the software you need is in the stable release. For that, you need to >> know that something is not going to be in the next stable release, >> with enough time for you to request it to be included if it matters >to >> you. >> >> (I think we need ways of helping users to do that, but it's >orthogonal >> to how fast we remove things from testing.) >I do agree with the statements above. However I think that by >decreasing the >speed of removal, packages get more chance to be fixed, but I'll not >bet on >this.
In my experience, it's very rare that it helps. Here's a current example that I'm about to go ahead and remove after an extended period of no response: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870987 Scott K
