On 06/04/01 13:15 -0700, Sudhakar Chandra spewed into the LI bitstream:
> versions) have not undergone sufficient testing. Under these
> circumstances, I think it is very admirable for Debian to distribute
> patched versions for their last stable version.
AFAIK, that _has_ been Debian policy for quite some time re package release
(patch older, stable versions instead of releasing bleeding edge stuff)
Not a bad idea, 'cept in cases where a lot of functionality gets added into a
newer version (but then, downloading and compiling code solves that) :)
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