Re: What can Debian do to provide complex applications to its users?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:12:51AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 04:58:04PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> > I know that this does create some problems for us, e.g. on the security
> > side, but the alternative is, as you mentioned, manually installed
> > software and that surely is worse.
>
> No, I think it's better if people know they're on their own for maintaining
> something. What's surely worse is when we ship stuff that we know we can't
> properly maintain in the long term. Better to be out of the archive than in
> without the expected level of quality.
Who said we cannot properly maintain this stuff? And where do you think our expected level of quality (whatever that is) will not be reached?
Michael
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