"Hall Stevenson" wrote: > > > 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. > > So if a "bug" isn't found during a package's testing phase, > it's not going to get fixed ?? I'm referring to non-security > bugs, of course. Almost sounds "arrogant", as if someone > doesn't want to admit that they missed something...
No, it's an admission that any new uploads to `stable' could introduce worse problems. The solution is a much shorter time span between releases, something that was hoped the testing distribution would enable. This hasn't materialized so far, but it has created a pretty solid near-bleeding-edge distribution (testing) that I now use instead of stable. You need a good connection to the net though. Peter
