On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:20:36AM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Vipul Mathur wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:52:14AM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > If the policy of Debian, notably Debian Stable says not to fix packages > > > like gaim and similars (be it anyway, increasing version, backporting > > > patches) when problems occuer making them totally useles (take a look at > > > gaim -- it won't connect to Yahoo in the current version), the policy of > > > Debian does suck. Am I wrong ????? > > > > I am grateful it is that way! Other wise "stable" will loose its meaning. > > I use gaim all the time, and I use sid (a.k.a unstable). Period. > > > But everyone won't be technically sound like you nor would they have > that much of time to keep maintaining sid. Stable, just because it is > covered well by the S.D.O floks doesn't mean that they should eliminate > software functionality.
Okay you lost me there. What "technical soundness" are you talking about? The process of keeping sid updated is almost the same as keeping stable updated. An occasional apt-get update; apt-get (dist-)upgrade; will do it for you. There is no rocket science here. One just has to be a little more carefull than stable. -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
