Re: a policy question about stable
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Dear Users,
> I'm using Sarge and installed "gaim" to log on to MSN, Yahoo
> messengers. I wasn't able to log on to Yahoo. Looking up at
> Gaim's IRC channel, I found that the problem had been fixed in
> Gaim 0.79.
> I know testing(sarge) has delayed updates than stable/sid. My
> question is when sarge gets into stable and such problems occur,
> how do things get accomplished ?
> Does packages like gaim and others remain unusable or their
> versions are increased or they are patched ?
In most cases, they'd probably remain unusable. It can be pretty tough
to get much newer versions by the stable release manager. Patching is
an option, but most maintainers aren't motivated to backport patches to
the old software in stable, especially if there's a chance it'll be
rejected. The stable update policy really sucks for software of this
sort (see also spamassassin, virus scanners...).
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