On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:26:42PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > (snip) > > If you want stable, you get it. If you want unstable/testing (which > > means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All > > fully up to date. > (snip) > > Well, to an extent. Sometimes when you report a problem with a package, > the maintainer's reply is basically, "well, use the latest one from > unstable or wherever, that should work, I'm not interested in fixing the > old version too",
Disinterest in old versions is part of it - but also, package maintainers usually can't update the versions in stable except for security problems and the like. The upload simply wouldn't be accepted. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
