--------- Original Message -------- From: Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)? Date: 27/09/05 23:55
> Hm, well, I understand that you're having a problem, but I don't really > see it as a problem with testing, or that testing is broken; but rather, > it seems more like a problem with the idea that stuff like this won't > happen with testing. In fact, this kind of thing tends to happen quite > frequently in testing, when testing is far from a planned release as > stable. It's in the nature of what testing is. Wait for a while and > it'll sort itself out. If you don't wanna wait a while, stable or > unstable are for you. Testing is not offered up as a robust distribution, > and never has been; it's an automated collection of packages drawn from > unstable that are considered releasable due to certain criteria. > Sometimes stuff gets by the scripts. Last year, there were extended > periods where GNOME and KDE were uninstallable out of testing (in KDE's > case, I'm pretty sure it lasted months). Only after a pre-release > freeze goes in should testing be considered robust enough to complain > about stuff like this happening. I don't believe he was complaining, just making sure that the developers knew about this as sort of a bug report or something. __________________________________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau v 2.7.8 [Debian GNU/Linux for Sparc64 'Etch'] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
