Am Freitag, 8. November 2024, 10:28:05 CET schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > [...] > The main purpose of testing/unstable/experimental is to prepare the next > stable. > [...]
+1 from a "stable" zealot here. =)
This goes as far as the Debian/KDE team, back in the days when KDE shipped
Kmail2, decided to package the oldish Kmail1 with a newer KDE, which should
have shipped with Kmail2. Debian/KDE did this because Kmail2 simply was not
production ready then, and I would probably have abandoned Kmail2/Kontact during
that time (as many of my Ubuntu-using colleagues did), had Debian/KDE team
decided to roll with Kmail2 at that point.
They did as they did, and so I am here today still using Kmail (now the
stabilized Kmail2), and I'm grateful to the Debian/KDE team for the route they
took.
Initially I also had that mindset of at least testing being a rolling release,
which it is not, and neither are unstable or experimental.
As Martin explained (and I concur), it all mainly serves the purpose of
preparing the next stable. Testing or unstable being usable at any given
point in time is merely a side-effect. :D
Regards,
Christian
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