On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 16:58:54 -0400, Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote: >On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 10:36:17PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>I don't agree with this *at all*. It is not in the interest of our users >>to be forced to update the software they use for their infrastructure >>every few months. > >Isn't that the user's decision, when they decided to adopt a tool that >requires this deployment model? Or, if they're not clear about what >adopting this tool means, I agree that isn't in their interest for them >to see that there's a debian package and be fooled into thinking it >doesn't require this deployment model just because there's a zombie >package in debian stable which will be essentially unsupported and will >completely cut them off from the tool's community. Putting it into >debian provides zero benefit, and they could get the same "stability" >guarantee by just keeping a copy of a two year old third party .deb and >never updating it.
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