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On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
It's always possible to make exceptions. It's not just about the VCS;
there have been requests to replace Apache, NTP, Zope, Postgres,
MoinMoin, and a few other packages. There have been many problems
on upgrade for the cases where we gave in: shared libraries were
missing after the upgrade (for Zope), the software wasn't available
anymore after the upgrade (in case of manually-install Python
pacakges),
and so on. Very few people have actually helped in fixing these
problems (applause to AMK for being very helpful with the most recent
incidents).
I'd rather have the users annoyed than finding out that the custom
setup opened an entrance for hackers.
Maybe this is a false choice. Maybe the problem is standardizing on
Debian stable. If that distribution isn't giving us and our users
what we need, maybe we need to re-evaluate that choice. Yes I know
we've talked about that before and yes I know it would not be easy to
switch to something different, but still. If you can't even upgrade
svn to 1.5 on Debian stable, then I think you'll find it impossible to
switch to any modern DVCS.
- -Barry
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