The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-07-18 at 13:50, Celejar wrote: > > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >> This is not the place for debugging Sid, I'm afraid, there are too > >> few > > > > It's not? Where, then, is the place for debugging Sid? > > I'm no longer anything *close* to an expert in this area (having not run > sid myself in well over a decade), but my understanding is: debugging > sid is done in the BTS, collaboratively among Debian developers and that > subset of non-DD users who run sid, and preferably involves those users > investigating causes and filing bug reports with the results of those > investigations. > > By taking on yourself the risk and burden of running sid, you are > volunteering to be one of those who helps notice issues before they > reach testing, and report those issues so that the machinery of the > archive can stop the package versions which those issues from migrating > to testing. Ideally, you are also volunteering to be one of those who > helps the package maintainers track down and fix the issues. > > -- And, by doing that, you are volunteering to help protect those who do > *not* run sid from having to encounter those issues. It's an admirable > thing to do, really, if you have the time and energy and so forth to > spare for it.
Done: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561 -- Celejar
