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I think that having to check the issue tracker before installing packages is exactly the kind of thing that people are talking about when they say "here be dragons". By your argument, we would also be able to call Arch Linux a very reliable distro. It can be if you know what you are doing, but it isn't something I would want to recommend to the average user...

> Instead of stable / testing / unstable, they could be server / workstation / testing.

I would love to see something like that, but I think it would need significant changes to Testing to make it usable for the masses. Some years ago there was some work towards that direction with Constantly Usable Testing, which explains some of the challenges: https://old.lwn.net/Articles/406301/