rawhide report: 20070120 changes
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 22 16:15:22 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:54 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 10:46, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > You're running rawhide on an internet facing system?
> >
> > Why is that unreasonable? You want people to test stuff right...
>
> Mostly because a lot of the packages in rawhide are untested, especially with
> external facing scenarios in mind. Rawhide can and will eat babies,
> sometimes through flaws that appear upstream and aren't caught until somebody
> packages it up and releases it to the wild. Always use Rawhide with caution.
Sure... but unless someone tests these baby eating packages against a
real life scenario, you're bound to find bugs _after_ release. I've
seen that happen twice now in real products.
(ok, perhaps not this pam one, but still)
josh
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