Hello everybody. I've agreed to adopt the Debian packages of ion3, but have not yet made any changes to them.
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:00 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > 2. But if you want my help, or otherwise come complaining within my > sight, you'd better be using or have tried things out on a supported > release, i.e. the latest release on a supported "branch". (Ion3 or > Ion2; Ion1 available merely as a historical curiosity. Ion2 support > will also cease when "stable" Ion3 is released. Not that there's > been much of a need to support it.) I'm quite happy to include a clear notice that bugs and queries should be reported to me as the maintainer rather than you. However, this is what users should do for any package, and there's not much I can do about (l)users that don't know about reportbug or how to find the maintainer's email address. They probably won't read the Debian documentation either. > 3. Distros should provide only supported releases (with a reasonable > delay, which two years isn't), or at the very least let users know > (in a manner that they can not ignore) when they're installing an > unsupported release. ion3 has been removed from the testing suite and will not be included in the etch release. > The reasons are simple: a) if your distro is supposedly "stable", it > is easy for you to think that the software it provides is "stable" > too, and hence supported. I agree, actually; I think Debian has very variable levels of support for released packages and this is not made clear to users. Since you say ion3 is not in a state to be supported for the lifetime of a Debian release, I must accept that. Therefore I will try to keep it up-to-date in unstable and backports. > b) And if your distro supposedly provides the latest software, No-one accuses Debian of that, surely? ;-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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