Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 25th Oct 2003 05:13 UTC, submitted by Charles Krohn
Today, Ian Murdock described his recent work on APT to the Debian community. This announcement has far-ranging implications for the future of Fedora and Debian projects. Ars Technica has the details.
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Debian "Stable" is not concerned with the stability of the software itself (that's what testing and unstable do, among other things) but with the stability (think consistency) of the procedures and software over several different platforms.
Unlike Red Hat or Yellow Dog Debian targets 10 to 16 Platforms (depending on how you count) and on each of those Debian stable behaves the same. That is the stability that is meant by stable - not non-crashing programs - and i guess that you realize that this takes a tremendous amount of time to check and counter-check.