[csw-maintainers] stable release?

[Philip Brown]

I should mention that, when you have packages in current that have
been excluded from 'stable' release,so you have to use older versions
of things.... a thorough "stable release manager" then gets stuck with
*TESTING* whether these older package combinations still work.


Consider the following proposition:

Software S, depends on Library L.

It is discovered that "current" L, is not qualified for stable. So, we
potentially need to release with the prior version of L. Which in
theory, is binary compatible with the more recent one, so it "should"
be fine.

But this is supposed to be "stable". So we need to actually VERIFY
that it works, rather than just make guesses and shove it out to the
public.