On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:58:54PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > The real problem is that it's not uncommon for these packages to change > > database formats during the course of their development. That happened > > with both snort and ClamAV, and possibly others, since woody was > > released. New rules are being released regularly in the new database > > formats, but not in the old formats. Thus, the packages in stable are > > useless. [1] We either need to be able to update from e.g. snort 0.8 to > > snort 0.9 with a stable point release, or we need to completely exclude > > packages like snort from stable releases. I believe the latter option > > is a disservice to our users, as is the status quo. > > Right. Use the security archive, we already have this feature. No > need to re-invent the wheel. Except that it's our policy to not make functionality changes in point releases. Using a separate "volatile" section allows us to offer that same level of stability [*] to our users. If they don't want to install packages that may change during the course of a stable release, then it's trivial to leave them out. noah (*) Where stability is defined by an unchanging code base, similar to the way we use the term in our release cycle.
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