Re: possible hole in mozilla et al
Coming from a corporate environment I hardly feel that stable is ancient.
With most commercial operating systems the quality control seems so poor
it takes a few years before we feel comfortable moving to a new release.
But with Debian I can point to the unstable-testing-stable system and my
boss understands that it has already gone through a 'teething' period
before it's released.
If Debian were to accelerate the path to stable too much stable would
loose it's value to us. (unless security fixes were released for older
stable versions)
I am not arguing for any change in the policies for determining what is
stable and what is not. My feeling is (and I admit I haven't done any
studies) that stable gets delayed sometimes due to obscure packages having
bugs or obscure platform specific bugs. It seems to me that most commonly
used packages like apache, php, postgres etc have a pretty good track
record and could be considered stable a few months after they are released.
Using the same criterea used the debian folks now you could have more
frequent updates if you simply selected a small set of carefully chosen
packages. Kind of a debian sub distro.
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Tim Uckun
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