Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes: [...] > I personally don't think it's a huge issue if those point releases are > not 100% regular, because for the majority it's security updates, but > it's still good to have them not too far apart, esp. for those updates > that are not also already distributed via security.debian.org. Let's look at the point releases for woody. There were 6 updates after the initial Debian 3.0 release: 3.0r0: 2002-07-19 3.0r1: 2002-12-16 3.0r2: 2003-11-21 3.0r3: 2004-08-26 3.0r4: 2005-01-01 3.0r5: 2005-04-16 3.0r6: 2005-06-02 It looks like the situation improved in 2005 - but 3.1r1 was released more than 6 months after 3.1r0 (and there's no 3.1r2 yet), so something became worse again. > With significantly less effort required each time from the side of > ftp-master, I think stable point releases can happen more > regularly. There can be other ways to improve too, but not by direct > intervention from the DPL role -- a DPL should not want to > micro-manage. Who *should* intervene if it looks like a team controlling central parts of Debian's infrastructure is too busy to do everything it should do? Marc -- BOFH #67: descramble code needed from software company
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