Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> writes: > Though I hate to say it, the Debian people seem to be very > silly over Scribus (the website is saying the unstable is 1.0.1)
As a convinced Debian user, I have to defend my distro here: Debian has a general divide in (at least) three official package repositories: ?stable?, ?testing? and ?unstable?. The ?stable? package repository is the well-tested, official distribution. This is changed only for bug fixing/security updates. Main benefit: it should be rock solid. The ?unstable? repository contains freshly made packages that were not available for the last official release, they might contain all kind of bugs, break other packages, bring in new dependencies on ?unstable? packages etc. ?Testing? contains packages that have been in ?unstable? for some time without showing any serious problems, and that can be used with the other packages in ?testing?. So if scribus 1.0.1 is still in the ?unstable? repository, that might mean: the package is not well tested enough to proceed into ?testing?, or it contains bugs, or it depends on some package not yet available in testing for some other reason. The step into the ?stable? repository isn't going to happen before the next official release. BTW: There is a bug report from September 23rd asking for packaging of the the new 1.1.0 version. So the ?unstable? version might change some time soon, and maybe it will even proceed into ?testing?. Ciao Michael
