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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] Official ISOs has beeb sent to manufacturer
From:       Jan Ciger <jan.ciger () epfl ! ch>
Date:       2004-03-31 20:23:03
Message-ID: 406B28A7.6030407 () epfl ! ch
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Michael Scherer wrote:
| The purpose of debian testing is not to have a recent version of package
| "stable enough to work".
| Testing is simply a unstable, without RC bugs, to test ( as the name
| implie ).
| And, one day, testing is freezed and called stable after lot of
| bugfixes.

I meant "recent" in a relative sense. Of course, you do not get the most
recent stuff that Debian has in unstable, but you get more recent things
than in stable distro (which tend to be quite old).

| I am not sure that cooker community will receive all backport of cooker
| we can think of...

Probably not, but getting at least new minor/bugfix releases (like
gnomemeeting or OO recently) would be nice. Otherwise, what is the point
for most people to use Community release after the Official is out ? The
bleeding edge junkies use Cooker anyway and people striving for
stability will use Official. It would degrade it to another
RC/beta/whatever version. I think, that this should be clarified by some
insider.

| And debian testing is not updated for security, where as community seems
| to be.

Well, it is, but after some time. The fixes are done in unstable and
stable trees first, then the fix is ported to testing too.

Jan

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Jan Ciger
VRlab EPFL Switzerland
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