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Re: New policies?



On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:50:30PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof, 
> 
> that is not the point. For myself I am using testing as well. My opinion and 
> my thoughts are these:  using stable (with the premisse "things will not 
> change during the next 2 years except of security issues") is outdated today. 
> This premisse makes no sense for stable, if exceptions are not allowed. 
> Because of its own rules, the debian/stable breaks itself, when suddenly 
> things do not weork any more, because for example protocols change or 
> disappear or formats change etc. IMO these things should be flow also into 
> stable (of course, only when they are working without any trouble)

Let's see if I've got this straight. Update a program to the newest
version. This can require updating one or more libraries which can break
other programs that depend on those libraries, etc, etc. If I'm wrong, 
don't hesitate to unleash the flames.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"

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