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> Ruby 2.3.0 was released on Christmas Day in 2015 > Debian 8 (Jessie), released 25–26 April 2015 > Debian 9 (Stretch) was released on 17 June 2017 It was 8 m

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• chrisseaton 8y ago
  > It was 8 months old when Debian 8 shipped I don't know what you're trying to say with that - if it was already 8 months old why wasn't it included? Why are these packages always so old?
  • poloniculmov 8y ago
    > Stable is the current release and targets stable and well-tested software needs.[122] Stable is made by freezing Testing for a few months where bugs are fixed and packages with too many bugs are removed; then the resulting system is released as stable. It is updated only if major security or usability fixes are incorporated. This branch has an optional backports service that provides more recent versions of some software. That's how Debian stable works.
    • chrisseaton 8y ago
      In what sense do they consider unmaintained software to be stable? What do they do if there's a security vulnerability in a feature that's been removed so there's nothing to backport? Stable as in dead.