Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
*- On 31 Jul, Daniel Barclay wrote about "Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?"
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>> From: Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org>
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>> That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_
>> out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a
>> state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge.
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> But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on packages
> against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest unstable
> distribution?
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Because this all takes time and resources to provide. Remember that
Debian is a purely volenteer project, this includes both human time and
computer resources. Many Debian developers do not have the resources
to provide versions for both stable and unstable, recall, to build a
stable and unstable binary you have to have a stable and unstable
system to build it against. Those that are providing the archives are
also doing so on a volenteer basis and if they are developers themselves
then they must have the resources to build the versions for stable as
well as have an unstable system to build the new packages for the
current unstable.
If you want something that is only available in the unstable tree you
can always build the source archive against your current setup, it is
fairly straight forward with the Debian source archives.
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Brian
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