On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:13:05AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2012, Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> wrote: > > Being forced to upgrade to a new major version by a stable security support > > is nothing we should force our users to. Debian stable is known for > > (usually) painfree updates and bugfixes only, not for shipping completely > > new versions with a forced migration. Therefore - in my opinion - we > > should not ship wordpress in Wheezy, at least not until upstream handles > > such issues in a sane way. > > Forcing users to manually install and update it or to use a package from > outside Debian are also options that aren't good for users.
If we can't provide stable packages then I don't see what value we add by packaging it at all. I wonder what the ratio of wordpress+debian users is who use the package versus those that hand-install anyway, and whether that is something that could ever be feasibly estimated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120513085510.GC12861@debian
