On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:16:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:03:11 +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >> quoting a recent discussion on debian-devel: >>> -------------- From: Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [...] >>> Mindless optimism. If you try skipping a release on a box with a >>> fair amount of stuff installed, expect to spend all day fixing it. >>> --------------
> The response should be to determine where these glitches lie > and fix them, rather than just compromising on quality. Go ahead, invest your time if you think it is important enough. Personally I think there is (and will always be) more important work to do while Debian's release interval is >>12 Months. > > I would like to add to this experience that all the packages added > > after woody's release have never been tested whether their > > debconf-scripts run with potato's bash at all (see e.g. #209720). > > Sounds like a bug to me. Could you be more verbose what you consider to be a bug? [ ] The fact that we don't regularily make test installations of sid packages on potato [ ] The fact that potato's bash has some bugs that sid's one does not. [ ] Something else. cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]