On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:49:20AM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > >>>>> "Henning" == Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Henning> I stand corrected, apparently. (But I have yet to imagine which > Henning> arguments would be used against doing a release if we happen to > Henning> find testing in a freezeable state 6 months after sarge > Henning> releases). > > Perhaps because you'd be either forcing busy sys-admins to dist-upgrade > every 6 months, or forcing maintainers to keep security updates for two > stable versions?
Oddly enough, most FreeBSD sysadmins don't appear to mind doing things much more invasive than a dist-upgrade, every six months. This has largely to do with the fact that most upgrades are very smooth, and don't require, say, a complete reinstall. In this regard, Debian actually resembles the *BSDs much more closely than most other Linux distributions (and that isn't a bad thing). Oh, and as for security? They're already supporting 'oldstable' for, oh... about 6 months, or more. So tell me again why this is supposed to be a bad idea? (One that may take some practice to achieve, sure, and not one I expect us to hit next release, though I'd be happy to get it below the steadily expanding history of Debian - and the current RM's goals appear to be a strong step in that direction). -- Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ,''`. Debian GNU/NetBSD(i386) porter : :' : `. `' `-
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