Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> (snip)
> > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which
> > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All
> > fully up to date.
> (snip)
>
> Well, to an extent. Sometimes when you report a problem with a package,
> the maintainer's reply is basically, "well, use the latest one from
> unstable or wherever, that should work, I'm not interested in fixing the
> old version too",
Disinterest in old versions is part of it - but also, package
maintainers usually can't update the versions in stable except for
security problems and the like. The upload simply wouldn't be accepted.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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