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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:25:01PM -0400, David Hummel wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:30:14PM -0400, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:21:18PM -0400, David Backeberg wrote: > > > > > > In the gentoo case, many things are usable, but are nonetheless > > > marked experimental. My understanding is that this situation also > > > applies to much of Debian. "Stability" seems to take into account > > > feedback from the users, and since an alpha user group is > > > drastically smaller than an x86 group, it follows that this cycle > > > drags out longer. > > > > Debian doesn't work that way. > > Actually, Debian does work that way. > > Packages enter "unstable", and once the number of release-critical bugs > is minimized, the packages move into "testing". At some point when > "testing" becomes mature enough, it is frozen (as "sarge" is now), and > eventually becomes the "stable" branch. > > The bug reports are submitted by developers as well as users, so these > reports constitute user feedback. You could say that user feedback is > directly related to package migration and the "stability" of packages > and distributions in Debian. Nevertheless, Debian doesn't have sendmail 8.4.3.2-pl35 as stable on x86 and ppc, while having sendmail 8.4.3.0-pl3 as stable on alpha and arm. (There may be an alpha-specific patch, but these are few and far between, as most issues can be generalized and moved up to gcc or libc or some other infrastructure package.) -dsr- -- Contact recommends the use of Firefox; SC recommends it at gunpoint. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can
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