Wouter Verhelst([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-01-05 13:46: > That's how testing started off. We stopped doing this because > a) it at one point stalled glibc; as a result, nothing moved to > testing > anymore, and when it finally did, the changes were so dramatic > that > testing was broken for quite some time.
Hmmm .. I didnt know that testing was originally a non-RC distribution although I have heard of the glibc pain. > b) Some RC bugs are only discovered when they migrate to testing. If > the > promise of 'prestable' would be that it would contain NO RC BUGS, > then we would have to throw those out. That would likely result > in > prestable being a very incomplete system. ahh .. I take your point. What about the idea of identifying a list of release essential (RE) packages? Is that the mechanism actually used to determine the relase point when testing is frozen? Forgive me if I tread a well worn path, I was not involved with Debian when woody was released so this is my first experience with a release. Steve
