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> 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 facetiousl
by 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.