-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Didier Raboud wrote: > Romain Beauxis wrote: >> You can't get both recent *and* stabilized software. For a solid release >> to be done, one needs to hold new improvements for a while. > > Yes. But there is a bunch of non-DD people that strongly want to use Debian > and prefer the recent software over the stabilized one.
These are called 'users of unstable' or 'users of testing'. > With the new > laptops coming out every two weeks, having the latest kernel, Xorg or hal > is no caprice, it's needed… I think that the three existing flavours of debian already provide more than is needed to offer comfort for both users with stability needs and users with desire for new software. At the times of a freeze, I guess the available resources would be better spent on trying to keep that time as short as possible, instead of having to explain to users that there is one more section that they could use in their sources.list. Just one example: IMHO it might be better to speed up the testing and fixing of bugs in the present kernel versions, instead of adding one more kernel version to the archives, that will have to be tested and fixed as well. I don't imply here that the kernel team or anyone else is doing a bad job. I just feel that if there is anything to improve it would be more efficient to just speed up existing work flows instead of _adding_ to the existing ones. > That's not a problem from Debian stable users, who need a "stable before > all" release. But for the FLOSS community and the geeky users, I guess that > it is in fact a problem. It would be great, if the remaining RC bugs were solved faster so that lenny could be released sooner, allowing newer versions in squeeze faster, allowing earlier testing of newer software, speeding up the release of squeeze, leading.... > With a less jungle experimental which you could trust as the unfrozen > unstable or with a constantly unfrozen unstable, this would not be an > issue. With a faster fixing of RC bugs and a faster release, all this would not be an issue. Cheers, Johannes - -- speaking as a user, who believes that debian's way is close to perfect for _both_ stability and new software. Thanks to all for their great work! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklHqdoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXL3wCfQFo2ETzA5VeEasWgOwiQRa1D 5okAn1ol9z5Ff0htx5FLgTYSF2UZU/s8 =rOcY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
