On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:33:47 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:59:51 -0400,
Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> If a second rawhide-specific staging repository (equivalent to
> updates-testing, so call it rawhide-testing) was added with some
> autoqa automation to prevent gratuitous problems (such as broken
> dependencies in core components), I suspect the situation would
> improve.
That is what branched releases have. Running one of these still gets you
pretty up to date stuff, but a bit more protection from breakage.
But branched releases stabilize sometime before the beta point is
reached, which triggered off this huge discussion in the first place,
because Postgresql 9.0 came out too late for inclusion.
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