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irregardless of the coverage this has gotten.. author's request should honored how can it be deb stable if the author is getting spammed about issues. kind of
by kogone 10y ago
irregardless of the coverage this has gotten.. author's request should honored
how can it be deb stable if the author is getting spammed about issues.
kind of seems to be at odds with the best things about Debian.
- digi_owl 10y agoDebian stable operates under the "better the devil you know" principle. Thus often various bugs that are not security related will not get patched because that may well disrupt production installs more than leave it be and have the local admin implement a workaround. JWZ's definition of stable is more akin to what you get out of the kernel devs or FSF's software. A codebase that has been tweaked and fixed over time. You can see this in how he laments the rewrite(s) of Netscape Communicator after Mozilla was formed, and CADT. Formulated after Gnome devs invalidated long standing bug reports of his, because the relevant Gnome part was to be rewritten from scratch once more. Stable is in essence one of those context sensitive terms...