Re: a policy question about stable

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

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> 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 ?
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>  

Packages often remain broken, even if they're completely useless. For 
example selinux. If you want selinux on Woody, Russell Coker will tell 
you where to get a version that works, and it aint Woody.



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John

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