On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:28:26 -0600 "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote: >Incoming from Chris Metzler: >> >> But this assumption is wrong. The purpose of the existence of testing >> and unstable is *not* to give users choices. It may also be true that >> their existence gives users choices; but that's not what they're >> fundamentally for. The purpose of their existence is to facilitate >> the development process that produces stable releases. Users may >> decide to > > I was around when Ian Murdock first introduced Debian. Back then, we > had SLS and Slackware, the latter having been produced because the > same un-fixed problems tended to be reproduced in subsequent issues of > SLS. Debian's raison d'etre was stability in response to the lack of > it in existing distributions. > > I still think that's what Debian should be striving for. I don't see > any point in catering to bleeding-edge-itis in Debian. [ snip ] > No change is necessary. If the user thinks stable is obsolete, it > should be up to them to deal with that, and that means they should > learn to add what they want onto stable, or go elsewhere. testing and > unstable are for those who know what they're doing and are willing and > able to understand the consequences, in the spirit of wanting to help > Debian produce a future stable distribution. Debian should not be > bothering to cater to bleeding-edge-itis in a misguided attempt to > open up Debian to more users. Leave that to the Libranets and > Knoppixes. Hi. You picked my post to reply to when you said this. It may just have been a choice of many and wasn't directly in response to me. But just in case not, let me say that I agree completely with you, that I thought the point of view I was expressing was absolutely congruent to what you just said, and that I hope I didn't communicate otherwise (since that would be the exact opposite of what I wanted to say). -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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