On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 09:34 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> i.e. if you've got a big, potentially very broken re-base to a new
> upstream it would be a good idea to test locally, then push to rawhide
> for a while, then updates-testing for another while and, finally, push
> to updates.
Well, once a package is in rawhide, it in almost all cases sooner or
later enters "stable", because there often is no way back.
I.e. packages must already provide a certain amount of stability before
entering rawhide. A mechanically/blindly/careless pushing packages into
rawhide approach, hoping they will mature there, will hardly work.
Agree 100% - hence the "test locally" bit.
Rawhide is useless if it's so broken no-one tests it.
Cheers,
Mark.