On Thu, June 28, 2007 13:48, Michael Stone wrote: >> Once we've released a package in stable and as 'supported', we will >> support it until the end of that stable's life. I would not want to >> retract the supportedness of a package during stable's lifetime; our >> users should be able to use stable with the expectation that what is >> claimed to be supported will not be suddenly become unsupported while >> they've deployed it. > > You can't have it both ways. Either we have to do a better job of > keeping crap out of stable, or we have to find a way of communicating that > stuff in stable can't be maintained (especially security-wise).
Yes, that's true. So my point is to do a better job at keeping 'crap' out of stable. It's a valuable feature of Debian stable that a released distribution does not change significantly. Dropping security supportedness is a significant change in my opinion. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
