On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:31:13AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 10:06, Romain Beauxis <to...@rastageeks.org> > wrote: > > > Is that important? Unstable is frozen for nearly 1/2 year now, that's a > > > problem we should try to solve if we don't want to degrade ourselves to > > > a server-only distribution. > > > > 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. > > I think it would be good if we could take time to stabilise the server > version > while continuing to work on development versions. > > The Fedora vs RHEL model that Red Hat uses has some benefits.
The Fedora and RHEL is: Fedora: a somewhat equivalent of Debian Testing. The rules for updating a package even after a version is released are way more laxed than Debian Stable. RHEL: Much less software. You can't expect to maintain the whole archive of Debian Stable for 5 or 7 years without it. There are many packages I miss in the CentOS archive. Also note that none of those distribution has a distinction between "server" and "desktop" in the release cycle management. Ubuntu has a "server" variant, but it is merely a way to package different packages and defaults into the installation CD. RHEL has a distinction between "server" and "desktop", but I figure that this is because supporting a server instance costs more (or that people are willing to pay more for it). This is somewhat like Ubuntu's LTS: it is a guarantee for 5 years, but only for Ubuntu's Main, and not for Ubuntu's Universe. And I figure that sure, the model of RHEL would work well for us. Only if the Stable release includes *my* pet packages. Just as much as: 'Sure we can release Lenny tommorow. Just as long as *my* pet bugs get fixed'. Regards, -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
