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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"That is the stability that is meant by stable - not non-crashing programs"
Actually, it means both. Consistency is certainly a key aspect (e.g. no updates other than security fixes) but the release process is also bug-driven (see http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/); no packages can be released whilst they or any of their dependencies have RC bugs filed against them. Whilst bugs of a lower priority don't hold up the release, they are either forwarded upstream or fixed by the maintainer or anyone else sufficiently motivated to provide a patch or a solution.
Oh, and a program crashing would almost certainly be classified as a release-critical bug, so have no fears on that score - any package suffering from such a problem won't be included in the release.