package stability

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 3/8/07, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:40:41AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >
> > In my opinion this is a lesson that should be learned from Fedora
> > Legacy. It takes a LOT of work to backport stuff.. and having un-paid
> > volunteers do it is not something that will happen.
>
> Why? If this also benefit to them, sure they'll do the backport.
> One prominent reason, in my opinion why Fedora Legacy died is that
> RHEL/Centos were better substitutes. There is no substitute for EPEL,
> we can expect more volunteers. Debian is run by volunteers and they
> more or less achieve that, I can't see why we couldn't.
>

I really hate to say this, but you may have answered your un-stated
question with your first sentence. There are only going to be so many
volunteers in the world, and the ones looking for stable have found
themselves Debian a better substitute. And even then Debian is not a 7
year stable environment. They are a 2-3 year stable environment... and
getting security fixes for non-core packages have been a real pain
last I heard from the Debian security people.




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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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