On 2006-09-10 06:02:57 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > That's a nonsense statement. Whether or not something is "up-to-date" > has zero to do with whether or not it's more or less "buggy".
Well, in the past, I had mail lost due to the spamassassin from the stable distribution. The maintainer (or some other Debian developer) agreed that there was a problem, but refused to make any update of the package because this wasn't a security hole. There are other problems with Debian/stable, such as external software that can't be installed because Debian/stable is not up-to-date; such external software may be necessary for some users. Another example is Subversion, that needs a recent version of OpenSSH (with connection sharing) for performance reasons. > Witness the current sysvinit fun in unstable. Such problems are quite rare. And maintainers should provide a way to fix them. And here, it seemed to be the case. > You expect your average cluebie to even understand the problem, let > alone how to go about fixing it? Fortunately the maintainer is right > on top of that one, but how many cluebies read d-u? Everything should be in the NEWS file. Anyway clubies could still ask someone who knows (whatever the OS is). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
