Hi,
in last weeks (or months?) i see a lot of daily updates in Debian
testing. I am using the testing for years and i am surprised by this.
I encounter with this some years ago, when i was uisng Ubuntu as LTSP
server, where i get 18 (by word eighteen) kernel updates in one year,
and most of them involves some problem - not big problems, but all was
needed to solve. Then i switch to Debian due more stability (IMHO, by
more precise work of Debian maintainers).
Now it seems, that the Debian is Ubuntized. The work is going quick
(and then not very good). As example, there is a CUPS package. It
changes (taken from changelog) more times by month, see some latest:
04 May 2014 12:18:32 +0200
02 May 2014 15:54:20 +0200
10 Apr 2014 22:05:22 +0200
09 Apr 2014 21:04:57 +0200
01 Apr 2014 08:00:00 +0200
31 Mar 2014 10:00:00 +0200
20 Mar 2014 22:00:41 +0100
18 Mar 2014 19:34:44 +0100
12 Mar 2014 12:03:14 +0100
27 Feb 2014 16:14:55 +0100
25 Feb 2014 12:06:47 +0100
18 Feb 2014 15:44:18 +0100
04 Feb 2014 15:31:13 +0100
20 Jan 2014 23:06:36 +0100
14 Jan 2014 10:03:37 +0100
09 Jan 2014 16:54:26 +0100
04 Jan 2014 15:46:02 +0100
03 Jan 2014 18:42:39 +0100
As anyone can see, there was 18 updates during cca 4 months!
And here are latest two entries from changelog (except the german
manpage update - and i removed maintaner names):
cups (1.7.2-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Updated version numbers in Replaces:/Breaks: for cups-bsd to also work with
updating CUPS under Ubuntu (LP: #1315766)
-- Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2014 12:18:32 +0200
cups (1.7.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed Ubuntu difference in the dependency of cups-deamon on avahi-daemon:
avahi-daemon is a Recommends for both now; remove "on started avahi-daemon"
from the "start on ..." rule in /etc/init/cups.conf upstart script
(LP: #1242185, #1178172)
* Add two patches for Upstart socket-triggered activation:
- allow starting cupsd socket-triggered through Upstart, for on-demand
starting to save resources (especially on mobile devices)
- let cupsd stop after 30 seconds idle time in when started by Upstart
socket-activation (if timeout is not explicitly set to another time)
(Closes: #742666, LP: #1276713)
There are three changes: 2 times Ubuntu, 4 time Ubuntu bugs fixed (and
one Debian). Really are Debian users interested in Ubuntu problems?!
Then i ask, what is in the subject. Are Debian repos still Debian's
repos or there are quick Ubuntu's developers migrating into Debian with
they chaotic job and using Debian for own (Ubuntu) purposes?
But this question involves some another:
* Is this a direction, where Debian is coming in near future?
* Need i escape from Debian, as i ran away from Ubuntu?
* How are Debian users interested in Ubuntu problems?
* Is the Canonical managing the Debian too?
* Is Debian still involved in stability, where for years was Debian =
quality and stability, or it becomes only testing platform for
Canonical business?
* Who, why and when decided this?
* Am i only one, who is frustrated by this?
Know someone answers, please?
regards
--
Slavko
http://slavino.sk
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