Re: woody is getting worse...
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:02:24AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> There are also people for whom potato is simply not an option; for
> example, one of my friends owns a Sun Blade 100, and it won't run
> potato, as it needs a 2.4 kernel. So he's running sid (necessary for
> the newer XFree at the time).
There are certain requirements you may have (e.g. need latest kernel &
toolchain or your arch isn't supported) which are always likely to
require running unstable/testing.
There is however no good reason why various new packages could not be built
in such a way as to be installable on potato systems. Just because a
particular package isn't *part* of stable doesn't mean that it isn't
desirable to have it *available* as an add-on to stable.
For example, you might want a half decent FTP server, and decide that
vsftpd is your only option. There's no reason why there shouldn't be
a package of vsftpd for potato, available from an official Debian source.
It would help *lots* of people if such things were available.
I'm not sure what the best way to achieve this would be.
> But in my opinion, instead debating whether or not end users should be
> running testing or whether or not they know how to check the BTS, we
> should instead just concentrate on getting woody out the door :)
That would certainly be a very good start. The problem then mostly goes
away for a short while, before gradually returning to haunt us again.
It'd be nice to have come up with an answer before that happens...
Cheers,
Nick
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