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From: Jason Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian Compliment
> My major issue with Debian is the infrequency of releases. Not everyone
> has the ability to aptify from unstable just to keep their system up to
> date. Debian tends to lag 6-12 months behind the latest revisions, or
> worse.
Yes, and there is a very sane reason for this lag. If they updated packages
all the time, then we wouldn't be able to apt-get upgrade against stable
with impunity without breaking config files left right and center as
packages get upgraded to their new releases.
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