On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:18:48PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Covering `testing': > > They have either not been fully tested (and could therefore have > undiscovered important bugs) or have not been around long enough to make > it into the stable distribution. > > This is just plain wrong.
It's not wrong. Just because a package is in testing it doesn't mean it's fully tested, and it certainly doesn't mean it's been long enough to make it into stable. > Packages that haven't been included from unstable (see below) have not > been around long enough to make it into the testing distribution or > depend on packages which are not yet part of this distribution yet. The first "yet" is extra, BTW. > Hmm, for unstable it says: > > <DD>This area contains packages that haven't had sufficient testing or > have severe bugs (some that might even cause damage to your system).</DD> > > which sounds quite negative. I have changed it to: > > <DD>This area contains packages that are currently developed by > Debian. All new packages and updates are uploaded to this > distribution. Once a package stabilizes, That verb is ambiguous. > doesn't have any release critical bugs s/any RC bugs/any more RC bugs than the one already in testing/ > it is copied to the testing distribution. Actually, to be precise, the package stays where it is, the DB and the Packages/Sources files for testing get updated :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
