> Also it should be noted that Debian/unstable is actually remarkably stable for > the working tree of a large software development project. In terms of the
True. I do consider this a good thing. Most people will probably be OK if they don't wear seatbelts, but that doesn't make driving w/o one any safer. > size and complexity of the project, the number of developers, the lack of > direct communication between developers (IE we're never in the same office), > and the number of inter-dependencies it's a truely amazing effort that our > development code is of such a high quality. Here, here. Debian rules! > When was the last time that a new version of fsck ate your file-system? I don't run unstable anymore on my servers. I ran testing when woody was stabilizing. I ran unstable at work until one day I turned it on it and it wouldn't boot. I didn't know what to do so I reinstalled. I knew almost nothing about linux at the time. I lost everything. I spent lots of time setting things up again (I didn't know much). I think that this was a lib problem that smart people fixed by downgrading in a rescue environment. I wasn't angry as it was labled UNSTABLE. Go figure. If testing gave me troubles, I also am not any more upset than I would if I lay my hand on a stove labeled HOT STOVE. > When was the last time that glibc crashed and stuffed everything up totally? I think that this was the problem. This was a few years ago. > I recall it being moderately broken on one occasion and that was fixed pretty > quickly. Again, great debian. I use unstable in part so I can help w/ bug testing. That's what unstable is for. Bug testing of the new distro. > Actually I'd prefer to see all of this done in the unstable tree without any > extra apt lines. I think that the only reason for needing new apt lines is I agree. This would probably be best. > if you have a development fork (for example the repositories of SE Linux > packages that Brian and I run) or if you have legal issues (EG MP3 encoding). > > I think that unstable should have more unstable code!!! Oh, so after that we agree. Well, you can't find a flame war everywhere now can we? :) Good day, Fred Ollinger
