Re: KDE 4.x in Debian
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 02:48:24AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:54:23PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>> Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:17:40PM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> >> On 2008-11-07, Gordon Haverland <ghaverla <at> materialisations.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Can someone make a reasonable approximation to an official
>> >>> comment on the timeline for KDE 4.x getting beyond experimental,
>> >>> and traversing unstable/testing/stable?
>> >> unstable: within a week after lenny release testing: probably a
>> >> month later
>> >
>> > Not 10 days?
>>
>> Do you really think it won't have RC bugs? :P :P
>
>Sorry, I was misunderstanding "packages migrate in 10 days" and
>"testing". Probably thinking packages migrate in 10 days for testing
>unless a newer version appears in unstable in that time, where that new
>version would migrate in 10 days instead etc.
>
>I see now there is more tighter control and "testing" is a wee bit of a
>misnomer.
The label "testing" does not refer to the testing of each package (this
should ideally be done _before_ upload to Debian!), but to the whole
_pool_ of packages and their relationships: The testing of next release
of the distribution.
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