Re: this post is not off-topic

[David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>]

Thanks for chiming in, Collin.

> Ah, yes. So the security team will have to support both potato and
> woody, because both will be stable on different architectures. Package
> maintainers will have to support wildly different versions of their
> packages in stable. All this until the other architectures get a new
> stable release - which, if we only cared about raw numbers of users
> rather than developers willing to do the work, would most likely be
> never.

This is an important point.

Woody, however, is supposed to support 11 arches to potato's 6. One could
drop the 5 new arches without encountering this problem. Would dropping
these 5 not help?



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