Re: Something I've noticed.
magnwa@lionking.org wrote:
> Evening.. Okay, here's the deal. I've got
> a game playing addiction, and it is really messing me up now :) You see, I
> like this game called FreeCiv. It's at version 1.6.3 right now, and the
> Stable of Debian has it at 1.5.x . Now , I realize it's untested and unsafe
> and oh no, we can't.. and it's in slink, and such..
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> But here's my question. Games are not mission critical. They often
> cannot produce bugs so mammoth to reach critical. What is the harm in
> introducing the CURRENT games/non critical applications into hamm/stable? I
> know I can go to slink, grab it, and install it.. but I don't like this
> wonderful dselect tool going to waste because nobody feels that packages
> like games should be modernized. The thing that seperates us from others,
> IMHO, is fluidity. If this distro stays static, it's only going to become
> outdated, and prompt us not to use binaries. BTW, if I install it using
> Slink's package, dselect nails it as an obsolete package.
Here are some ways a game can produce a critical bug:
* it's a svglaib game so is suid root, and has a security hole in it.
* the maintainer makes a stupid mistake (rm -f / comes to mind) in the
postinst script.
I do think it would be nice if a tool like apt could be pointed at just
unstable/games, and stable everything else. But this shouldn't be the default.
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