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Debian freezesDebian freezesPosted Jan 18, 2013 6:30 UTC (Fri) by DavidS (subscriber, #84675)In reply to: Other desktop support? by micka Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience
Tl;dr:unstable is not a development branch, it is a integration branch. Experimental might be considered a development one.
Uploading to unstable publishes packages as "destined for stable". In the case of libraries, that also means that users of this library will start linking against the new binary. This again implies that the two packages now must go to testing together. This quickly leads to situations where significant parts of unstable cannot progress to testing due to issues in central packages (think gtk).
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Debian freezes Posted Jan 18, 2013 8:06 UTC (Fri) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
Experimental is not a branch, it's not self contained (you cannot use only experimental, you need to have unstable as well).
> Building new packages against libraries from testing would reduce the formal requirements for testing propagation, but would lead to untested combinations in testing
But I'd prefer that. I still think that those who care about testing should be the ones testing it.
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