[NMLUG] debian release sarge 3.1

[jamesh at swcp.com (James)]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:17:02PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 June 2005 17:20, James wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:44:47PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > > Certainly nice to have it officially out! (Although, it's been
> > > perfectly usable the whole time.) But, hey, hopefully etch won't take
> > > us as long. ;)
> >
> > Agreed, very usable.  Security updates in testing would obsolete the need
> > for debian releases.
> 
> Well, it's been proposed a couple times... (and could be feasible, but the 
> regular security team isn't particular interested, and no one else has 
> volunteered to do it.)

They do a find job but they're slow probably because of the shear number of
packages and related bugs.  Perhaps a call for more security maintainers would
be the right thing to do.

> For getting a testing-like experience (newer software, more regular updates 
> with stable-like support (security updates, a base set of packages), Ubuntu 
> is pretty good. I use/recommend that a bit for installs where there's 
> mostly "desktop" use by non-power-users, but I'm not around much to 
> administer it (e.g. Grandpa's Laptop).

I was under the impression that ubuntu was drawing some of the debian
developers away from debian and into ubuntu which seems to be the wrong
direction.  But they were offering a release.  Seems like Debian ought to do
one or the other but make a decision.  Saying you're going to do releases and
then waiting > 2 years is just poor planning. :-(

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