Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

From	songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?
Date	2023-08-17 22:30 +0200
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<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:32:49AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 06:14:16PM +0800, hlyg wrote:
>> > it seems that x.1 are really stable while x are beta release
>> 
>> That is not by design, but by largely unavoidable consequence, and
>> so a Debian stable release is not considered a "beta" ion any
>> respect.
>
> I think that the best correspondence to the "beta" idea in Debian
> is the freeze process (explained here [1] for buster). So x.0 is
> considered "release quality".
>
> The freeze process is designed to cope with the specialties of a
> big and complex software distribution, where you want its many
> interdependent parts to "settle" in "layers", starting from the
> most fundamental ones and propagating to the "leaves".
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html

  sometimes it may be more like fermenting before it 
settles.  :)

  i appreciate everything that people do for Debian from
the development to the testing to the refinements and even
to the sometimes long drawn out discussions about how to
do something or how to fix things or make them better.

  and then those who help the rest of us out and keep us
somewhat on the straight and narrow pathway towards 
nerdvanna.

  songbird

Thread

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-08-17 07:00 +0200
  Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-08-17 08:20 +0200
    Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-08-17 10:00 +0200
      Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-08-17 12:50 +0200
      Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-08-17 13:40 +0200
        Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-08-17 13:50 +0200
          Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2023-08-17 22:30 +0200
            Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-08-19 21:20 +0200
      Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2023-08-17 19:20 +0200

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