On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Well, to be fair, who is really to say the compiler will go missing? > I've never heard of a popular language's compiler/interpretor going > missing, especially considering that every Linux distribution mirrors > it. > > I bet that in ten years Debian will still have a legacy package for > Python 2.x interpreters.
You assume that upstream will still be maintaining (doing bug and security fixes) 2.x, and that a DD will be interested in maintaining the package. Also, you're assuming that Debian will stil run on whatever computer hardware I'm using. I'll have to see what hardware I have that won't install Lenny. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
