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Just a quick note: debian stable has a new release every two years. So in the very worst case "decades" means like three years. The horror, the humanity, just r
by diffeomorphism 3y ago
Just a quick note: debian stable has a new release every two years. So in the very worst case "decades" means like three years. The horror, the humanity, just remembering how software used to be three whole years ago causes me to shudder.
- iscream26 3y ago> just remembering how software used to be three whole years ago causes me to shudder Well, yes. I agree with that statement even though you made it facetiously. Backporting security fixes only for bugs that have made enough noise to warrant it is a horribly janky hack. And, just thinking about all the time that has been, in my opinion, wasted on custom code that Debian maintainers have had to write in order to backport fixes makes me shudder.
- diffeomorphism 3y agoEh, there is huge demand for that static-ness, see windows ltsc, red hat, suse, debian stable, ubuntu lts etc. . Those customers actively don't want unstatic releases and pay lots of money for people to "waste" their time. So it doesn't matter whether it is a "janky hack" or what your personal opinion on that is.
- noirscape 3y agoThat can still be ages depending on the maintainer spats. When I say maintainer spats, I'm referring to shit like how avconv was given undue credence for ages because the split happened right around a Debian release and the packager for ffmpeg on Debian was on the avconv side, which caused a false deprecation notice to be present for quite some time. And yes, with how quick some software moves, two to three years can very much result in a mess of hacks and patches.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> And yes, with how quick some software moves, two to three years can very much result in a mess of hacks and patches. If you don't like the stable release, you could just run testing/unstable.