On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > (because then we can release, which means we can then do what we prefer > to, which (as you can see in the unconstrained periods), is to package > new software, new upstream versions and so on). New code tends to be > buggier than older, debugged code, so it's no surprise that we get more > RC bugs in the non-freeze periods..
In general, bug-fix releases (which are also blocked by the freeze) don't introduce new bugs. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
