"The "testing" distribution is an automatically generated distribution. It is generated from the "unstable" distribution by a set of scripts which attempt to move over packages which are reasonably likely to lack important bugs. They do so in a way that ensures that dependencies of other packages in testing are always satisfiable."
Also, despite this: "All bugs of some higher severities are by default considered release-critical; currently, these are critical, grave and serious bugs.
Such bugs are presumed to have an impact on the chances that the package will be released with the stable release of Debian: in general, if a package has open release-critical bugs filed on it, it won't get into "testing", and consequently won't be released in "stable"."
KDE is still uninstallable in the testing distribution
Not true. A unstable package may be moved to testing after 2 days! From http://www.debian.org/devel/testing :
1. It must have been in unstable for 10, 5 or 2 days, depending on the urgency of the upload; 2. It must be compiled and up to date on all architectures it has previously been compiled for in unstable; 3. It must have fewer release-critical bugs than, or the same number as, the version currently in "testing" (see below for more information); 4. All of its dependencies must either be satisfiable by packages already in "testing", or be satisfiable by the group of packages which are going to be installed at the same time; 5. The operation of installing the package into "testing" must not break any packages currently in "testing". (See below for more information.)!
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