ubuntu feisty experiences

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 07:23 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/16/06, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There are 2 kinds of folks who run unstable:  developers/testers and
> > idiots.  The stable and testing branches work.  Unstable often does
> > not (or sets of packages do not).  Running unstable you're on your
> > own.  Obviously *buntu didn't do a good job of testing.  Don't blame
> 
> Yes I fault their failure to test, but I also fault Debian for
> producing the broken package in the first place. Unless I'm wrong,
> they have even more testers than Ubuntu, so there's enough blame to go
> around. In this case even the simplest test would fail (phpinfo()
> segfaults!), so they tossed it over the wall after packaging. I'm not
> impressed with either Debian's or Ubuntu's testing procedures.

Maybe Debian tossed out a banana peel? <evil grins> Ric