On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:11:23 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > It's your decision, but are you sure that you want to take on the > > repsonsibility of maintaining a development release of lynx throughout > > a stable release cycle instead of the stable release of lynx? > > Yes, it is not something like -snapshot but, at least recently, > it is what you guessed as alternative possibiliry; > > > An alternative possibility exists that the -cur release is actually > > the version that upstream plans on having long-term support for, and > > the lynx version is just for legacy users, but the bug thread (which I > > read) doesn't make this point clear.
This certainly doesn't match up with the information that's available on their website, especially considering that 2.8.6 is their release version, they're iterating new development releases every 3-6 months which will eventually be released at 2.9 or 2.8.7. > So, from the same reason, > > > I can't speak for the security team, but I'd be rather suprised if > > they'd be willing to support a development version in favor of a > > stable version of lynx. > > it will be easier for our security team to support lynx-cur than a > stable lynx. So whatever development version we release with you'll be putting in the effort to backport patches to it, even if we're the only distribution who happens to be distributing that release, and you're willing to track it for a full release cycle? (Three years?) Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
