Am 11.10.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Martin Stransky:
I believed that the update-testing repository is intended for testing
and it's
used by power users who can handle that, exclude the package from testing if
needed, downgrade broken package and so on.
I'm surprised that people use updates-testing for stable/production machines,
have problem with handling the update and act like newbies. If you can't
handle that, don't use that. Fedora is really a bleeding edge so don't
complain you get new software with new features - even as testing only :)
Also, I think your expectation about dramatic change of new extension
availability for FF57 last month before the final release is false.
"dramatic change" seems a bit ... dramatic ;-)
However I know at least one somewhat popular addon (NoScript) which is planned
to have a release just before the Firefox 27 release
(
https://noscript.net/getit#devel). So the push to F26 updates-testing really
hurts some users more than necessary.
Other than that I think Fedora maintainers worked hard to get away from the
perception of "unstable/bleeding edge distro" to a more "provides new
software
but still reliable".
I think this is not about "having updates-testing enabled and not being able
to handle breakage" - in the end all the complaints came from users who can
"handle" the breakage. I'd like to echo other's concerns that I treat
"updates-testing" very similar to "updates" just with the additional
caveat
that it might be a tad bit less tested.
Please let's keep it that way.
fs