> > And why wouldn't we offer said upstream version instead of the > > unsupported older one? > > In some cases this might require changing literally thousands of > packages in stable. > > Imagine said upstream version requires the latest Node.js. > > Various other packages in stable won't work with the latest Node.js > and will also require upgrading. > > In the Node.js ecosystem it is par for the course when upgrading > a package breaks countless reverse dependencies.
Right, and that's why we were talking about stuff like flatpak that bring the application with its dependencies, more or less like a container. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
