Eduard Bloch wrote: > Debian Testing is not stable and is not mature. It is full of shitty bugs > (let me define this term as name for ugly bugs that bother the users but do > not look appear as critical for maintainer, or not important enough to touch > package in the holy "frozzen" state). Such bugs are a disaster, they make > our definition of a Stable release absurd. Yes, Debian Stable has become a > buggy stable release. Just face it.
AIUI, you propose to freeze unstable and go back to the old method of having updates during the freeze be manually put in at the discretion of the Release Managers. If we did that, how would one of these "ugly bugs" be any more likely to be fixed in frozen unstable than it is in today's partially frozen testing? If it were a bug on one of the packages currently frozen in testing, the situation is exactly what it is now; the maintainer and RM have to decide whether putting this fix into testing (or frozen) and possibly introducing new, more important bugs is warrented by the ugliness of the bug. If the package is one of the large majority of packages that are _not_ currently frozen in testing, then it seems it would be harder to get it into frozen using your proposed method than it is to get it into testing now. -- see shy jo
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