Ar 17/04/2004 am 15:14, ysgrifennodd William Ballard: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 08:09:54AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > I'm not sure the question of shipping GNOME 2.6 in sarge has anything to do > > with GNOME or the Debian packages of it at all, really... It is more about > > when sarge is going to ship, and the kinds of risks Debian's willing to take > > in that process. > > This sounds like the perfect sort of thing for a minor release 6 > months following a major release. > > Does Debian do "point" releases?
Yes, but they are of very limited scope. The contain only updates which are Very Important: security fixes, fixes for packages which were uninstallable, fixes for grave bugs (such as major data loss), and other things of comparable priority. I know some people might think a new version of GNOME is the Most Important Thing Ever, but I think the release team takes a different view on the matter. :) I suspect that if Debian released more regularly, people wouldn't be so desperate to get things into the next release, which tends to make things later. I can see both sides: - Testing should be kept up-to-date because once it's released as stable, it isn't going to change much for two years. - Testing should only receive bug fixes because new versions introduce bugs and bugs makes the release late. It's not a new problem - Debian has had it for years and lots of clever people have been trying for a long time to improve matters with little success. The question for the moment is this: if we push GNOME 2.6 into unstable, what is the impact on sarge going to be? -- Dafydd
