On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 03:44:08PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:21:59PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Several maintainers are on the record as not caring about releases at > > all - unstable meets their needs. > > But our priority is not the developers' needs. Our priorities are our users > and free software. Our users need frequent stable releases. Developers > who state openly that they do not care about releases are in violation of > the Social Contract. I don't know if I have publically stated that I don't care about releases, but with Debian releasing as slowly as it is stable is of very little value to anyone unless they have systems roughly 6mo-1yr older than the release itself. This is primarily due to the fact that the installer is never updated with newer kernels. Personally I have been unable to install Debian stable, using b-f, on my last ~ 6 systems. The way I managed to install Debian was to use knoppix with debootstrap which is definitely not friendly enough for a newbie or even the average user. So Debian definitely needs to update its installer images as new kernels are released, regardless of if it releases the whole distribution faster. Chris
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