On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Hi, > > One important thing are more frequent releases. We don't have to release > as often as other distributions but IMHO it's needed to have a new stable > release at about once a year. Currently the software in our stable release > is two years old and I see several distributors and magazines already ship > woody CDs instead of potato CDs although we are still several months away > from releasing woody - and if people encounter problems with the packages > they find there this does in the long term harm the good reputation of the > quality of our packages. There are many reasons why you need packages you > can't find in potato. Sometimes it's only that you want to use Gimp 1.2 > but often there are important reasons like e.g. support for kernel 2.4 or > Euro support in some applications. Using testing isn't an alternative on > many production systems because testing reduces the probality of bugs but > it could still happen that e.g. your X does no longer start after your > latest upgrade to testing.
This is a troll paragraph. Sure, everyone agrees. This has been hashed over and over and over. Talking about it doesn't help. Solve the problem.