There are two sides to stability: "stability through lack of change" and "stability through tracking upstream". I seem to get bitten by the former more frequen

There are two sides to stability: "stability through lack of change" and "stability through tracking upstream". I seem to get bitten by the former more frequently than I'd like with certain distributions. Then there are problems with upstream some times, this Mysql 5.1 GA release may end up being problematic for distributions that track upstream really closely. But I consider that to be more bleeding edge than not. I'd like to see some distributions smartly packaging both a considered stable version and a closer to bleeding edge version, without goofy include-the-version-in-the-package-name cruft (except in the case where upstream does it, like sqlite did with sqlite and sqlite3 naming), so it's easier to pick and chose and move between versions without double installs and a lot of conflicts. Its more likely easier to just stay on an older distribution release than it would be to maintain this.