Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800 > Ken Teague <ktea...@pobox.com> wrote: > >>> Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian >>> releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time >>> between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to >>> design and make smaller, more frequent increments in order to >>> keep Debian stable releases from getting so (relatively) old >>> (while maintaining quality standards)? >> Debian doesn't have a set release cycle, as you've noticed. It's >> long because they want to produce a distribution that's very stable >> and contains little or no bugs. Bugs that are submitted after a >> release are found after the relea... > > I, for one, am very thankful for Debian and the way that it > releases. I run a couple of servers that I would just as soon "just > ran", instead of having to tinker or fix things all the time. I have > more to do.
Why do you (seemingly) think I'm saying Debian should reduce its quality level? As I wrote in my other message, I'm talking about changing the "chunk size" of releases, not the quality. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]
