On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:40 +0200, Sjon wrote: > I am going to agree you have sort of a point here. This has indeed > happened multiple times now; my nvidia setup broke as well; no way of > fixing it (but fortunately it somehow worked after a major package > upgrade today). If we want to improve Archlinux; the releasing and > testing of packages is definitely a point to look into. > > Archlinux isn't always unstable and I am very pleased with it's bleeding > edge profile; but I hope not everyone disagrees that issues sometimes > arise with packages, which shouldn't arise at all. > > I do not have a solution however; maybe someone else does? Is further > testing / quality improving possible in Archlinux without losing the > speed of updates and it's bleeding edge profile? > > Regards, > Sjon
Packages are tested as well as we can do ourselves. We have a specific repository for testing packages, and most packages such as the kernel and nvidia will spend at least a week there on any major update. Unless we get bug reports that something doesn't work, it gets moved to current/extra. So the long and short of it is that if no one is using the [testing] repo and/or no one is reporting bugs, there's a good chance the bug will make it to current. Dale _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
