Why was etch released as stable if it still has bugs? I looked in both debian-release and debian-user mailing lists, but I still can not find any info as to why it was released with rc (release-critical) bugs. I'm pretty sure previous debian stable releases where not made until rc bugs were at 0.
You can see on the chart at: bugs.debian.org/release-critical that at the release of sarge the release-critical bugs were at 0, but you see etch was released with several. Someone mentioned on irc.freenode.net/#debian that these are probably minor bugs that will be fixed with updates/upgrades, but these can't be so minor as they are listed as release critical bugs that seem to still exist. Debian is know to be the most rock solid distro in terms of stability, but if debian is releasing stable while there are known release-critical bugs does this mean that debian is beginning to go the way of other distributions (many other distributions that I've tried release a stable version that doesn't come anywhere near debian in terms of stability)? So far debian seems to be on it's own as far as being the most stable distro. The only distro I've found that comes close as far as stability is Gentoo, but even Gentoo seems to not close the gap as well as I'd prefer (when doing some updates). I hope I'm missing something here because after trying several distros debian is my favorite, but being able to check bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ and seeing that the number of bugs was 0 at the release of Sarge is an example of what I like about debian (not being in a hurry to release so as to only release when there are virtually no important bugs). It seemed like being able to see 0 rc bugs on the chart was a pretty transparent way of showing how stable debian is. Please note I mean this as not a flame as I'm very pleased with debian in general and I've been using sarge as testing for a while and it had been running without any major setbacks. Etch is a great distro and I would recommend it as the preferred gnu/linux distro for anyone. Is there anywhere else besides bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ where one can show how stable the stable release of debian is? Thank's and please keep up the good work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
