On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 03:59:11PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Why is this a bug?
Quite simply: Because packages in Debian should not be telling the user "you should upgrade me". In particular, packages in Debian stable should not suggest that they need upgrading "for the sake of upgrading". For a third-party application in a Windows environment, it may make sense for an application to say "upgrade me". For a system like Debian where everything is under the control of the package manager, it does not make sense. > Is there something not working? AFAICS, this is a documented feature. Documenting a misfeature does not necessarily make it a desirable feature. Debian stable is frozen. There is no point in upgrading something just "because it's old". We already know it's old and we are ok with that. Moreover, Debian aims to be an universal operating system, not just for desktops, not just for servers. Think about an application telling you "please upgrade me" while you are in Mars... > Whether you like the feature or not is irrelevant. Actually, it's not irrelevant at all. If we don't like a "feature", or it does not suit the needs of our users, it's completely fine that we remove the feature, the same way we can add a feature not present in the original code if we think it makes the program better. For example, Firefox in Windows has a button to upgrade it. Because we have a package manager which handles all upgrades, you will not see such button in the Debian version of Firefox (be it Iceweasel or Firefox in testing). That's the point of software freedom, to be able to modify, adapt, improve and fix bugs in the software, regardless of those bugs being accidental or (as in this case) intentional. Thanks.
