On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/linux.en.html#debian says:
Versions in "stable", "testing", and "unstable" are way too old.
But Debian testing/unstable contains the very latest TeXmacs stable
release, that is 1.0.6. What do you wish were in Debian releases?
TeXmacs development snapshots?
It is an unfortunate historical accident that some documentation somewhere
states that versions 1.0.x are "stable" and versions 1.0.x.y are
"development". In reality, things don't work like this, and never did.
There is no "stable" branch, in which only bug fixes are applied (and such
a branch never existed). Instead, bugs in 1.0.x.y are fixed in
1.0.x.(y+1), together with adding new features. The development process is
more like the kernel 2.6 process than the old even/odd stable/unstable
one. So, versions 1.0.x.y are full-featured *releases*, not development
snapshots. In fact, when a user encounters a bug in 1.0.6, the best
adviuce to him/her is to upgrade to the latest 1.0.6.y and see if it has
been fixed already. Nobody will ever fix a bug in 1.0.6. If the bug has
not been fixed in the current 1.0.6.y, it will be, in 1.0.6.(y+1), not in
1.0.6.
Just IMHO,
Andrey
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