Re: Debian LTS?
On 06/10/11 00:13, Sythos wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:13:33 +0200
> werner@aloah-from-hell.de wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a Debian LTS-Version would be sooooo welcome and is definitly
>> something that's missing for Debian.
>>
>
> in 18 years Debian released 6 "stable", an avarage of 3 years between a
> stable and the next one, i think is already longer than others call
> "LTS" a distro. 3 years between stables is already (imho, maybe) too
> much, is already an overload of work for maintainers to backport
> patches and other on software often classified "old" if not "obsolete"
> too.
>
> The major benefit of opensource software is the "darwin effect", good
> software evolve quickly, bad software die, force a maintainer to work
> on a software for 2 years more than usual may mean force a unusefull
> work, *imho* 3 years are already too much for a lot of enviroments
> (like development)
>
>
Moreover, if you wait to long you may have an important software, with
an outdated not upstream supported major version, where backports are
not possible because upstream architecture changed completely.
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