Re: What's wrong with debian?

[Jan Lühr <jluehr@gmx.net>]

Greetings,

Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 23:21 schrieb Anthony Tippett:
> Jan Lühr wrote:
> > Greetings,...
> >
> > Am Montag, 28. Februar 2005 22:56 schrieb William Ballard:
> >>On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:50:50PM +0100, Jan Lühr wrote:
> >>>What's preventing the sarge release? What blocks it for more than one
> >>>year?
> >>
> >>For what it's worth, I haven't had to reformat/reinstall any totally
> >>horked Sid installs since the fall.  My little world is pretty stable.
> >>It "smells ready" to me.
> >
> > Of course, your argumentation is quite justified, but it didn't answer my
> > question.
> > What's wrong with debian?
> >
> > Keep smiling
> > yanosz
>
> What's wrong for one is right for another.  What's wrong to you is right
> for me.  Personally, I want the "stable" distrobution to be well stable
> and very proven.  What may be "stable" to you probably is "testing" to me.

Of course. The robustness of a well tested system is nothing I want to argue 
about and I don't say testing has been tested enough. I'm just wondering, 
what actually went wrong.
What have caused multiple false announcements?
What have caused debian stable getting so old, that it is unusable for 
production use in a lot of scenarios?
What have caused debian stable getting so old, that the security team cannot 
provide security support / or do not provide security support for a few 
packages?

Of course, it is impossible to satisfy anybody's needs, but this isn't the 
point. Debian was able to satisfy the needs of many and now the number 
decreases.

Keep smiling
yanosz