On 2006-09-14 17:33:17 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This is the rule for stable. Grave bugs are fixed for the next update > though.
And this can take months. Losing mail for months is not acceptable. > > 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. > > That's not a bug, it's a feature. A lack of feature, due to the fact that stable is not up-to-date. > That's exactly what makes stable so stable. Backports helps > sometimes. But backports are no longer stable and have their own problem (e.g. security updates are not guaranteed, which may make them worse than unstable). > If, for example, X is broken (which can and did happen), how is he > supposed to write to d-u? I cant imagine the average cluebie to be > able to use TUI mailers. No need for X to write to d-u. And even if the whole machine is broken (which can happen any time, even with stable, e.g. due to hardware failure or intrusion), you can use another machine. -- 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]
