Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
On 2006-09-10 06:02:57 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> That's a nonsense statement. Whether or not something is "up-to-date"
> has zero to do with whether or not it's more or less "buggy".
Well, in the past, I had mail lost due to the spamassassin from
the stable distribution. The maintainer (or some other Debian
developer) agreed that there was a problem, but refused to make
any update of the package because this wasn't a security hole.
There are other problems with Debian/stable, such as external
software that can't be installed because Debian/stable is not
up-to-date; such external software may be necessary for some
users.
Another example is Subversion, that needs a recent version of
OpenSSH (with connection sharing) for performance reasons.
> Witness the current sysvinit fun in unstable.
Such problems are quite rare. And maintainers should provide a way to
fix them. And here, it seemed to be the case.
> You expect your average cluebie to even understand the problem, let
> alone how to go about fixing it? Fortunately the maintainer is right
> on top of that one, but how many cluebies read d-u?
Everything should be in the NEWS file.
Anyway clubies could still ask someone who knows (whatever the OS is).
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