On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 09:09:43AM -0800, Andrew Lenharth wrote: > I know others have expressed this, but a big reason we wind up with slower > release cycles is we have a stable unstable. i.e. unstable is rather > stable. Most of the other distributions start with the software that will > be released by the time they release and start working with it early. > > What I really mean: unstable should (as soon as work on potato is > finished), have the new perl, xfree, apache, kernel, etc. Even if they > are still release canidates. the sooner we have everything working with > the new packages, the sooner we can release. For example, to wait till > perl 5.6 is out to try to integrate it could take longer that to start the > integration process with a perl release canidate. > > It is the unstable branch, lets take advantage of it and make it unstable > to start out with. The sooner we can find problems and fix them, the > shorter our release cycles will be, and the more upto-date our main > packages will be.
This is what experimental is for, no? Unstable is for unstable Debian, not necessarily unstable software. The experimental distribution is much more appropriate for unstable upstream software. -- Elie Rosenblum That is not dead which can eternal lie, http://www.cosanostra.net And with strange aeons even death may die. Admin / Mercenary / System Programmer - _The Necronomicon_