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> Yes, people do exactly that. It's part of running a "rolling" distro And we do that too—for OpenBSD -current. But we have neither the manpower nor the intere
by anjbe 7y ago
> Yes, people do exactly that. It's part of running a "rolling" distro
And we do that too—for OpenBSD -current. But we have neither the manpower nor the interest to do such work for old releases.
- fluffything 7y agoThere are many options to solve that: * switch to a shorter stable release cycle (4 weeks, 6 weeks, etc.) with dynamic releases (e.g. if a zero day happens, fix current, and do a new stable release) * switch to only supporting -current * switch to something like Nix to allow stable users to "switch" some packages from stable to current, without having to bump their whole system (this would have allowed stable users to update their Firefox-stable to Firefox-current) A good packaging process should not assume that downstream packages can be trusted to have meaningful processes. Relying on Firefox having -esr releases is a temporary workaround.