I don't want to get involved in a flame war in this list (it seems to be a very difficult thing to do), but...
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:45:14AM -0400, Dinesh A. Joshi wrote: > Kartik Mistry wrote: > > billion years!! I am sorry - you are wrong! > > > > Yes they are. I have a suggestion for you Mr.Kartik Mistry, why dont you > just mind your own business and refrain from commenting on my posts? You > dont have anything constructive to say to the OP so just shut the **** > up? :) > > Lenny is *far behind* what other distros have to offer. In what sense? Is it in terms of the up-to-dateness of packages? Well, then I'd agree, though I won't agree that that is a bad thing. The philosophy has always been that stable should have packages which work well and not release with the latest upstream versions. Since the release process occurs a few months after freeze (no new package versions admitted), no new software versions are uploaded. > > Ah. And, don't want to mention, how many broken packages you got as gift? > > > Maybe you should take some reading lessons before you blindly reply to > someones post. Sid has broken packages and stupid dependencies which > need to be fixed. If you dont know about them, then whoa dude you > shouldn't be a debian "developer" / "tester" or whatever the heck you are. I think the question, however badly framed, still asks you the magnitude of problems you are facing. Unfortunately, you have managed to convert this to a personal rebuke. I also use sid, and I (and several others) usually don't seem to face as many problems as you do, so it seems unfair that you pass your experiences as the general verdict. It is true that sid is also the playground for several library transitions, which often leads to broken packages. So, if you really want to use sid, the best way would be to keep track of the transitions being discussed on the debian-release list, and don't upgrade till they get complete. Or, you'd have to downgrade or rebuild a set of packages against the new libraries etc. Maybe using "testing" might be the solution to those who don't want to go through this trouble. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
