On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:04:24AM -0700, Al Eridani wrote: > This is a strawman argument: I haven't seen anybody write that they want a > new release of Firefox because is "sexy".
I guess you aren't reading my mail, then. People request new versions in stable all the time for little reason more than the fact that they have higher version numbers. I get harrassed by upstreams for not pushing their releases into stable, telling me that backporting is stupid and I should trust them implicitly never to have regressions in new releases. Similarly, I have received criticisms from users whose systems have been severely broken by new upstream versions of software. Threads like this one which take on faith that the solution is obvious, and seem to exist only to release steam, don't help us move forward. It isn't obvious, and in this particular case there is an ongoing dialog with the Mozilla developers about the problems with the current arrangement and how to fix it. > But, please, do not deride people with opinions different than yours by > bringing up non-existent arguments. Please take the time to understand the issues and their history before reducing this to a matter of opinion. My argument is based on first-hand experience doing security support for Debian. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
