debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DU> So will testing always be available? I like the idea. I'm just not DU> used to packages being rolled back in a release. But if I have DU> apt-get always looking at testing, maybe that's what will make me DU> happy.
To my knowledge: -- Testing will always be available, in the same way that stable and unstable are always available. -- Packages shouldn't be rolled back, even if release-critical bugs are found in the packages in testing; the bugs need to be fixed, corrected packages uploaded to unstable, and the corrected packages sit in unstable without a new upload for the prerequisite amount of time. The "roll-back" you saw was when the "woody" name switched over from unstable to the newly-created testing distribution. Testing was populated with packages from stable, since those were known to work, rather than from unstable; thus, most packages went back to earlier versions if you tracked "woody" rather than "unstable". To my knowledge, it shouldn't ever happen again. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
