RE: Debian: abandon ship?
| With hindsight, it's clear that trying to
| support too many architectures was a mistake.
| Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly
| said that he who never made a mistake, never
| made anything.
Is it a mistake to try and reach every <insert target here> everywhere? If
so, then the Christian Church and the Girl Scouts are making mistakes as
well.
| If the people in effective control of Debian's
| direction no longer have this ability, then
| perhaps Debian is no longer useful to most
| of us.
So let's just scrap the Debian project as a whole and go back to being
drones for Microsoft.
| To save the Debian Attack Team the effort
| of a search, I'll admit immediately that
| (like most Debian users) I've contributed
| nothing to Debian except good intentions
| and trivial amounts of money. Debian does
| not need me. And I need a stable release
| with the 2.4 kernel.
I posted this rant on -devel a while ago (and had rebuttal), but I'll post
it here as well. It's been modified slightly, but the point still remains.
<soap box>
I think a point needs to be made. The first article in the Debian Weekly
News for May 15th has Woody in Freeze. From what I have gathered from
lurking on the -devel list is that it's security infrastructure that's
holding it up. Let's think logically for just a moment.
1. Woody is frozen.
2. It is unlikely that any new packages are going in, assumption based upon
point 1.
3. Security is not in place to handle Woody.
4. A security issue would more than likely be a release critical bug.
5. Security bugs are, in my experience, very quickly remedied.
6. Contrary to point 2, a security/release critical bug fixed package would
make it's way into Woody quickly.
7. We can ignore point 2 from a security standpoint by making use of point
6.
My conclusion is that Woody is effectively released already. A large number
of people have been running on Woody for quite some time. It's as stable as
it's going to get. Just do an apt-get dist upgrade and get it over with
already.
</soap box>
Farewell,
Brooks
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