Re: A criticism of RedHat's strategy

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Scott Doty <scott@sonic.net> writes:

> True, but since I am concerned about _known_ bugs, I suggest that Debian's
> strategy is precisely the strategy that should be adopted at Red
> Hat. 

The problem is that Debian's glacial release cycle does not fit the
needs of many people.  For instance, I need XFree86 4.0.1 on my
laptop.  With Debian, either I track unstable (which can be way
buggier than pinstripe, because it's a moving target) or I compile and
manage it myself.  With RH, there may be a known bug, but _I_ know
about it because it's in Bugzilla, and I can make an educated decision
whether it's acceptable to me.  As such, I can meet my requirements.

And even so, does Debian hold off a release till _every_ known bug is
fixed?  Even if there are bugs in the upstream that they can't fix in
a timely fashion?

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