Andrew George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think this is a good thing. >Debian is a great distribution, and I do agree, the project shouldn't >be wasting time with bug trackking (except where its the deb that got a >problem).
Um, I think that's one of the main goals of the project :) We contribute a lot back to upstream authors, and it's part of our goal to support the free software community. >Also, I hope no-one takes this the wrong way, but I always assumed that >the developer list would be talking about finally turning potatoe >stable, or maybe addressing he fact that it's been over a year between >Slink and Potatoe. Oh, believe me, it is, at great length. ;) >(PS the fact that Woody exists at all while Potatoe is still 'unstable' >is another thing I would have thought the developers would be >discussing) It's kind of necessary; potato's in a code freeze, and those of us who track current software (and some who need current software or packages that have been removed from potato due to release-critical bugs) want an unstable distribution that doesn't have the restrictions imposed by a freeze. There's still progress on potato, nonetheless ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
