On 8/7/24 12:01 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote: > This is holding up _bugfix releases_. > > Anyone would run screaming from a distro that didn't ship updates at > all.
(What if I said that lots of people *do* run screaming from Debian?) You have to manually negotiate for those, to avoid the risk of accidentally shipping an updated bugfix release that breaks their spacebar heating: https://xkcd.com/1172/ Obviously, lots of software does get bugfix releases, because someone negotiates the Debian political landscape to advocate for that bugfix release. When software cannot be updated by default because it might break someone's workflow, the natural result of sometimes needing an update is that people who want updates are pitted adversarially against people who do not want updates -- you need to plead your case and get permission and, well, fight for your right to receive a bugfix. ... Has anyone volunteered to be the political advocate for bcachefs-tools bugfix releases in Debian? If not, then I should amend my earlier advice to also include "do not use Debian if you don't like having to deal with the political ramifications of using the most politically bureaucratic distro of all time". :) -- Eli Schwartz
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