Don't put new packages through updates-testing

Michael Schwendt mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de
Sat Jun 2 11:37:06 UTC 2007


On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:31:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> >> Users facing these broken packages might just leave rather than report 
> >> bugs. Do you care about that?
> > 
> > Even worse if the users face broken packages that have gone through
> > something labeled "updates-testing".
> 
> Alteast then they can contribute towards testing.

Users who would "leave" don't try out so-called test-updates anyway.

An estimated big percentage of those few users, who do try out
test-updates, won't take the time to report a problem. There's too
much of a risk of hearing "know thing" or FIXED/RAWHIDE.




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