-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:59:45 +0200 Vincenzo Ciancia <cian...@di.unipi.it> wrote: > Il giorno sab, 18/07/2009 alle 00.32 +0200, Jan Claeys ha scritto: > > > > Debian unstable & experimental are updated all the time, so as long > > as the Debian maintainer keeps the package up-to-date, there will > > be a new > > version every 6 months in Ubuntu too? > > > > Hmm yes this is likely obvious but: is it true that packages in sid > are updated frequently? I mean: it is a waste of manpower to keep a > package up-to-date, e.g. if stable has version 1, and unstable passes > trough version 2,3,4,5, then the stable is released again, what is the > motivation in putting versions 2,3,4 in debian (apart from ubuntu :). > I am not _questioning_ this, I am wondering if maintainers in debian > are actually worried to constantly update packages in unstable. > > Vincenzo Yes, in the main packages are updated throughout a release cycle and not just close to a release. Watch debian-chan...@l.d.o if you want to see. Regards, Iain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkphyKAACgkQPy0SnCC/zcerGACdGt4MUvd9iGy16Uy1dOxzOxyX K4IAnRhSj6DOPcSdzNMMJPkEY94D4FWd =ZeIz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
