In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philippe Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >More seriously, my point is: >Is there any hope to one day, to adapt debian to the number of packages >it bears and split release cycles between a core of 300-500 packages >and having the rest of packages evolving at their own pace, following >the core? >syncing so much package around "release" schedule is becoming >unrealistic. I'm waiting testing to become stable for so long.
That would be a godsend. It would work, too. It's happening already: a lot of people run woody as "the stable core" and backports.org as "the rest", so the idea certainly has merit. Mike.
