Re: DPL Debate prepared questions list [Debian Policy Sucks]

[Luis Matos <a26652@alunos.mec.ua.pt>]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:09, Joey Hess wrote:
>  
>
> > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > So what do you people suggest in such cases:
> > > 1) Intel 1000MT NIC sucks, throw it away ?
> > > 2) Unh! Why don't you change to Debian Unstable ?
> > > 3) Buddy! We are all volunteers. Go and roll your own kernel with the
> > > patches ?
> > > 4) Wait! That hardware isn't officially supported by us. Build only
> > > machines which are known to work with Debian Stable?
> > >      
> > 5) etch beta 2 was released last week with support for your hardware
> >    
>
> So my question is:
> I discovered it today. But there might have been many Debian Users who might 
> have discovered this issue earlier. What choice are they given ?
>
> Is the choice:
> Wait till etch gets released ?
>
> RHEL and SLES do a damn good job of Hardware Bug Fixing and Feature 
> Enhancement for the software they ship.
>
> Why can't we do it ? Is it just because our policy doesn't allow it ?
> Can't we revise the policy ?
>
> Thanks,
> Ritesh
>  
There was spoken at sarge's release that there would be kernel updates 
on him. This would be a good thing, even if older got not supported, 
because if you upgrade to a new securiy kernel update, why not to a new 
kernel?

That is what dcc is trying to do, and what i think is wourth of. (sorry 
my bad english)

Also, this could be happening inside volatile, but it seems not.