xfce 4.4.2 test packages ready

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Sat Nov 24 11:39:58 CET 2007


On ven, 2007-11-23 at 01:09 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> The test packages are there mainly to iron out *packaging* issues.
> Any
> bugs in the software that haven't been fixed won't be fixed until the
> next release.  We're not going to fix every single bug with every
> release; we just don't have the resources, and there's no such thing
> as
> bug-free software (unless you write sw for the space shuttle, and even
> then...).

Yes but bugfixes releases shouldn't introduce new bugs, that was my
point (especially bugs not really understood)
> 
> No, the stable branch doesn't get so much testing.  It shouldn't
> really
> need it, since we have a bugfixes-only policy, and past experience has
> shown that this all seems to work out well enough.  You do realise
> that
> we're a group of volunteers, right?

I am too, so yes I realise.


> So, we can either have a release now (well, Real Soon Now[tm]; my
> personal life has been busy this past week and a half), or just
> postpone it indefinitely until some other number of bugs are fixed.

This bug wasn't present in 4.4.1, that's all I was saying. 
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez




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