Re: Some ideas from the 'Supporting 15.000 packages' BoF
On Thu, June 28, 2007 13:48, Michael Stone wrote:
>> Once we've released a package in stable and as 'supported', we will
>> support it until the end of that stable's life. I would not want to
>> retract the supportedness of a package during stable's lifetime; our
>> users should be able to use stable with the expectation that what is
>> claimed to be supported will not be suddenly become unsupported while
>> they've deployed it.
>
> You can't have it both ways. Either we have to do a better job of
> keeping crap out of stable, or we have to find a way of communicating that
> stuff in stable can't be maintained (especially security-wise).
Yes, that's true. So my point is to do a better job at keeping 'crap' out
of stable. It's a valuable feature of Debian stable that a released
distribution does not change significantly. Dropping security
supportedness is a significant change in my opinion.
Thijs
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