infrastructure modest proposal

[Gordon Messmer]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> With all the dependency problems that always seem to crop up
> in updates, I'd like to make a simple suggestion that would
> hide 99% of these issues from us pore old users:
> 
> Add another layer of repos: Just before the "updates" repo,
> have a "almost updates" repo. Packages that get released to
> "updates" now, would instead get released to "almost updates".

Isn't that sort of the intent of the "testing" repo?