Sure, Debian stable -is- stable, and there is a lot to be said for that. (Ditto for Ubuntu LTS.) The statement was (somewhat rudely) "they aren't outdated, go here and see". 2+ years counts as "outdated". Last-major-version and most of a year old is "outdated".
Note that I didn't reply to the OP, I replied to Nigel's sarcasm. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Felix Frank < felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10/13/2010 04:37 PM, Disconnect wrote: > > - lenny (stable) <http://packages.debian.org/lenny/puppet> (admin): > > centralised configuration management for networks > > 0.24.5-3: all > > - lenny-backports > > <http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/puppet>(admin): > > centralised configuration management for networks > > 0.25.4-2~bpo50+1 [*backports* <http://backports.debian.org/>]: all > > > > Looks pretty out of date to me. Lets see.. 0.24.5-1 was packaged on "Thu, > 24 > > Jul 2008 10:58:08 +0100". (Days after release, which is good, but over 2 > > years ago, which is bad..) Looks like 12 releases since then. > > > > 0.25.4 was released upstream in January and is -also- not "up to date" > > (minor, major, then another minor revs since then..) > > What's with the nitpicking? They call it "Debian stable" because it is, > well, stable. You get what you choose. > > I think the OP suggest that Reductive Labs offer the download of > packages that both > a) will install on Debian (stable?) and > b) offer varying amounts of bleeding-edged-ness. > > This idea is not without merit, I might add. > > Cheers, > Felix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
