On 11/19/2011 01:34 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > In terms of *why* those updates happen, that's quite simple: if Debian > won't run on a user's new hardware, that user will typically simply > ignore Debian. In (most) other packages, this isn't so critical - the > latest shiny version doesn't matter that much. Up-to-date hardware > support is one of the biggest issues I see reported about Debian with > our long release cycles, so I'm very supportive of people like Ben who > are directly spending a lot of their time on trying to solve the > problem. > Thumbs up, applauding the above with my all of my 6 hands.
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