On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 20:07:38 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 10/20/2010 01:40 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > >>From a DD perspective I can understand your reasoning. However, from a > >>user's > > perspective I cannot, which might be one of the reasons why I wouldn't want > > to > > be a release manager. > > And as Debian tries to attract system administrators and not the common > desktop > user I think it makes more than sense to ship a virtualbox version with less > bugs than the one currently in squeeze. Having issues in a software the common > desktop user uses sometimes is much less evil than breaking the admin's > favorite > virtualization technology. I'd consider xen, kvm, virtualbox and libvirt as > important as the kernel itself these days. > And yet we're not updating the kernel to 2.6.36. If we need bugfixes in squeeze, by all mean let's do that. Blindly updating to the latest upstream version, not so much.
Cheers, Julien
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