Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net> wrote:

> 
> >>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Denker <denker at iam.unibe.ch> writes:
> 
> Marcus> You should not use 3.8-unstable for productive work. Or if you
> Marcus> do, you need to live with the consequences.
> 
> The consequences of 3.8-unstable need not be to jump backward in
> time. There can be a broken update from time to time, this is
> perfectly ok for bleeding edge software, which would then be corrected
> later by a new cumulative update.

I agree with Sam here, the unstable stream could have cumulative updates
etc.
Avoiding having to start all over would be good for all cases where it's
not
a major bug that has no other possible solution but to start over again.


Karl