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Testing the bleeding edge

Testing the bleeding edge

Posted Mar 2, 2006 13:13 UTC (Thu) by PaulDickson (subscriber, #478)
In reply to: Testing the bleeding edge by danieldk
Parent article: Testing the bleeding edge

True, but serious testing also occurs on stable distributions. E.g. a lot of people run a stable distribution, and install the latest version of, say, OpenOffice.org.

But this will not provide any testing of packages that OpenOffice.org depends on or is dependent on OppenOffice.org. Somewhere this has got to be tested or there will be no stable distribution. Testing with the stable distribution is far too limited.


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Testing the bleeding edge

Posted Mar 2, 2006 17:31 UTC (Thu) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]

Of course, I fully agree. But there is a difference between putting out a testing distribution with stable software versions, and putting out a testing distribution with beta software.

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