Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is quite different. David said he wanted MAJOR packages included > in the updates (e.g. X). You said you agreed, yet you talked of _only_ > minor apps being upgraded.
It's probably a good idea to make post-freeze major packages available, but not as an official part of that debian release. We already offer other unofficial supplements to debian (contrib comes to mind), and such things are probably useful to a large number of debian users. However, it's almost guaranteed that such packages will be bad for some systems. And package integration (where external packages have dependencies on some part of the "major" package) isn't going to be all that great. This even would seem to codify existing practice: (a) we tend to make recent good linux kernels available even though related packages (lsof, pcmcia, ...) aren't ready for it. (b) there are a lot of "aptable references" floating around, for stuff that's not quite ready for prime time. I'm just suggesting that there should be something between a and b. -- Raul