Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:23:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20090527205142.GO5158@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:
> >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:03:29PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> >> Older releases are maintained in the archive
> >> >For 30 years or more?
> >> From what I understand, that is the plan. The archive currently goes
> >> back to the first release of Debian.
> >It may be planned to do that, but that doesn't mean that it will be
> >done.
>
> And when we have done it for 30 years, you or your successor will simply up
> the number to something that is longer than the lifespan of the Debian
> project so you don't have to be without your strawman.
You can consider the problem of keeping data readable and usable over
long periods of time a "strawman" all you want. If you have data that
you want to still be able to read/use after a long time, you might
have a problem that is somewhat difficult to solve.
It's up to you if you want to rely on external sources like Debian
archives being available for a long time or not.
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