Seg, 2007-05-14 às 17:03 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen escreveu: > Interesting analysis, with several good points on keeping the stable > release working with newer hardware and keeping the software selection > relevant. But my first impression after reading your long text is > that you are ignoring the work going on at backports.org, and the > ideas that has been floating around on making a Debian release based > on the stable version for the "base" packages, and include upgraded > packages like the kernel, X, Gnome, KDE and other hardware- and > user-interacting packages from backports.org. You might want to have > a look into those ideas.
One good point would be to include tested backports into stable release cycle. I don't mean base backports, but mainly user interfaces and so on. i'll give one simple example: - with network-manager-gnome, every time i connect to a radius network i have to put username, password and certificate. A newer version now saves this info. do i have to spend 2 years (at least) doing so to have a debian stable distribution? > > I've also seen ideas on making releases based on testing, now that we > have security fixes for the packages in testing. It could give a > snapshot of internally consistent packages (as opposed to unstable). There are people that use testing. In my work computer i only upgrade from stable to testing more or less at 3/4 of stable's release cycle. i don't think this is a way out ... maybe a better one is the one stated above. best regards Luis Matos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
