On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:18:37AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > You propose to eliminate "stable" as a release. To keep > > people from hurting themselves. Especially unwitting > > "auto-updating" ID10Ts. Ok, let me get this > > straight... How is this a good thing?
Paul Condon opined:
> Greg,
> In fairness to Max, he surely did not have in mind
> possible confusion by an experienced Admin who is new to
> Debian, but rather a simple user who is working in an
> environment where he must act as his own Admin.
Yeah, what he said. :-)
I'm pointing out that the `stable' distro becomes
massively unstable periodically. Admitted, that period is
on the order of multiple years, but it _is_ being shortened.
Additionally, the people least likely to be able to handle a
badly- or non-working system are the ones most likely to be
blind-sided by it.
Paul E Condon wrote:
> To reorganize the internals would involve a lot of work.
Touche'.
John L Fjellstad wrote:
> If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove
> 'testing' too.
I don't think that follows. If someone, even a newbie,
signs up for `testing', they've got to know there's going to
be a bumpy ride.
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Best wishes,
Max Hyre
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