On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:15:07PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > What does that buy us? ??It means instead of dealing with bugs on an > > ongoing basis, you get them all at the same time and get to bisect along > > many kernel versions at once instead of just one. ??It means problems > > don't get reported (and fixed) upstream until it's too late. ??It means > > any package that could use a newer kernel interface doesn't get any > > testing. ??I'm sure there's plenty of others.
> Bugs can be submitted and dealt with in experimental just as well as > in unstable. Realistically people don't generally go randomly installing things from experimental so the testing coverage we get from having unstable and testing is substantially reduced - we get to deal with everything in the freeze instead, plus all the effects of running an old kernel which isn't being actively developed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110208130359.gc29...@sirena.org.uk
