Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian
> > Large hosting companies not having made their scripts etc. good enough
> > to ride out upgrades well should have nothing to do with any decision.
>
> I don't think the problem here is with "Large hosting companies not
> having made their scripts etc. good enough". I don't think it has
> anything to do with size, or the type of company, or even the activity.
> I believe that the short life cycles of our stable releases is a problem
> for *MANY* companies. Dreamhost is the tree hiding the forest.
I can't see how it can be such a problem if they have well written
scripts. Run it on a new system, update the script or files to cater
for any fallout, deploy and larger companies deploy to more systems so
it is less taxing or more systems are deployed for the same effort.
Do they need to get some kind of long drawn out certification like out
of date Android images.
OTOH towards the end of a debian stable life cycle (ignoring extended
security support) you already find software that is problematic to run
atleast for desktops due to requiring newer QT to compile etc., meaning
it's often easier to use a chroot of Ubuntu etc. to run the latest
kdevelop or ffmpeg with webm support (I admit I haven't delved into the
backports yet as I only knew they existed recently, but would still be
wary of any packages with far reaching dependencies).
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