Joona Kiiski wrote: > Hi! > > Now for about two weeks there have been many packages out of testing. > I'm must wondering what's the point? Those missing packages prevent me > from upgrading because there are many among those which I desperatily > need and I don't want to start hacking apt. Wouldn't it be better to > have an unstable version of packages in testing than no version at all! > > Okay, you are pros, I'm just a newbie and there must be a good reason > for this, this situation is just irritating. Maybe you could consider > having four versions > of debian in transition phase, like: stable, testing, testing-new, > unstable. And when 99.5% packages would have entered testing-new it > could replace testing. Just an idea, maybe it would just make things > too complicated for developers and maintainers. > Check out this thread. Some perspectives on the missing packages in testing... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/11/msg00683.html
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