On 15 May 2014 at 10:15, Andreas Tille wrote: | simple. I agree that the pure fact Dirk is stating is true: Yes, we | are lagging behind upstream.
And you make that a "policy". I don't think that flies. Remember this line: "Our priorities are our users" | My point is that we are delivering Debian stable *releases* to You just singlehandedly redefined Debian as not caring about current packages in unstable / testing. I have been here almost 19 years, and I have met many maintainers. Not one shares the view that we should rot packages and only update for stable. That is just plain nonsense. | fine for me but I'm bored to discuss this over and over. Me too as you will never change your mind. FWIW to install (or update) R package I use two five-liner R scripts (included as examples in my 'littler' package) as I would much rather have __current__ packages in /usr/local/ than your bitrot in /usr. And then there is Don Armstrong's marvelous debian-r.debian.net which renders all this moot. This is really really sad and upsetting as I have poured a decade into making R good on Debian, and maintain a hundred __current and bugfree__ packages. If I may add, I do run into people thanking me for making R on Debian awesome. To have you sabotage this with planned bitrot is just sad. But maybe I will write some posts over on the R side explaining to people they should just avoid and ignore your packages. Which is a win for you too as you'll never get the bug reports asking for an update. Don't bother following up. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21364.42539.745951.104...@max.nulle.part