[Pkg-salt-team] Regression in 0.17.0

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joe Healy <joehealy at gmail.com> [2013-10-08 13:29 +0200]:
> In my experience, the early upstream releases ie 0.x.0 through
> roughly 0.x.2 often have regressions.

This is a statement about the past ;)

> Have you (or anyone else) have any suggestions for how we best deal
> with these releases in general?
> 
> 1) Do we skip them?
> 2) Do we avoid uploading them to the main archive/backports?
> 
> The downside to skipping them is there is less testing in a range of
> environments...

Unless there is a good reason to upload to experimental, we should
not, but upload to unstable.

There is a reason it's called unstable.

Backports only come into play when the package migrates to testing.
And even that is not stable, i.e. if you run testing or
stable+backports, you must be aware that you are not using stable
software.

Conclusion: stuff like this really sucks, but I don't think it's
Debian's job to prevent upstream's lack of testing. In this case,
upstream is at fault, I'd say.

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