Hi a question from a "normal" debian user:
As sarge is comming to a server near me..
I wounder why certian packages are so old when some are bleading new.
bind (9.2.3) wich in debian is: 8.4.4
dhcp (3.0.1) wich in debian is: 2.0pl5
iptables (1.2.11) 1.2.9
modutils (2.4.27) 2.4.26 etc
I understand that the debian installer needs to have certian packages like
dhcp as stable to work on, but 3 version has way more features and will
close some bugs, certian open some, but they can be closed as the others.
And alot of bugs from woody that are like 3 years old, when will they be
closed, not talking about release critical packages, but stuff that are no
near bugs today... Will this be cleared out when sarge goes into rc1?
And regards to the packages I mentioned over, discussions on mail lists have
been that Sarge is soon to be released, so we will not upgrade these
packages now. But it drags on and on, so when the dhcp package was asked why
not in testing, think it was like over 6 months now, that was the argument-
Sarge soon to be released!
A solution: set a date after installer is finished, have 30 days to upload
every package that can be updated without bringing to many bugs into it(
unstable- gnome team did this, why can`t others) and then freeze Sarge, then
fix Debian installer to reflect the latest packages, wich are not that many.
Then one go into fix,test Sarge.
So that one don`t have 98% of new packages and some that are waay old.
Regards
Thomas
PS: dhcp3 has less bugs than v2, but not as much testing done on it.. so
problaby reason, but hey..?
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