On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:57:57PM +0200, Tibor Pittich wrote: > thank you very much for info, but i have question, about time. i think, > squid isn't core component part of distribution (exception cookfire?) > but testing take too long (imho; this is not subject for blame).
Sometimes backporting things to the old distributions can be a real pain. Sometimes the new versions won't work right with the old stuff so we have to figure out how to backport a patch to the old versions. etc.. etc.. etc.. You have to remember we're trying to keep compatibility with the existing functionality of the release. Plus we want to minimize the number of packages to only those absolutely necessary, the more packages you update the longer it takes to test, plus the more likely you are to break something. That and as you update packages the amount of packages required to do an update can increase exponentially. We try to push absolutely critical stuff through as quickly as possible. Other stuff takes more time. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
