Brian Nelson wrote:
The requirement to release all architecures at once must cause problems. I expect that after IA32/AMD64, PPC (in particular Mac) there are relatively few developers with a keen interest in the supported architectures.There's very little resistance from developers to increase the release frequency. Nearly everyone agrees the current cycles are too long.
I think the problem mostly stems from Debian not scaling well. The distribution keeps growing in both size and complexity (more packages, more architectures, larger programs with more dependencies, etc.) but we're still using roughly the same release process we used back when Debian was a fraction of its current size.
Also, testing for interactions between increasing numbers of packages is (I think) a Fibonacci-series problem. Fortunately, most packages have no impact on most others so those relationships don't matter.
I think Debian has to do something, maybe split into "debian" and "built for debian" components. I'm sure though at any attempt to split it up will cause major ructions. I hate the idea of using EXIM, even for the amount of time it takes to replace it with Postfix:-)
Perhaps it could be based on the popularity contest and what fits on two CDs?
That would probably get Postfix in.
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