> 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 ????? >
the policy for Debian stable says that only security related bug fixes are available for Debian stable. If yahoo decides to change its protocol every two weeks, debian stable is not supposed to change its policy to cope up with it. The policy clearly states that for people who want to be on the cutting edge there is testing and unstable. That being said, the debian people should have more frequent release cycles. The current stable is waaaaaaayyy behind the other distros in terms of the versions of the various softwares bundled. Btw, I use debian unstable/experimental and am too happy with it to be pursuaded to use anyother distro right now :) -- Sharninder Singh ------------------------------------------------------- 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
