[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Martin A. Brooks]

Peter Childs wrote:

> Hmm Stable (Woody) is still running 7.2.1 While I would not use a beta 
> or release candidate on a main server I would also not use somthing 
> that is 15 versions old with many bugs and security issues that have 
> since been found.


I'm starting to think you're just trolling now.  If you knew how Debian 
worked, as you claim to,  then you'd know that Stable does not get 
updated bar bug and security fixes.  Let's take an application called 
Foo which gets in to Debian stable at version 1.1

Development then continues on Foo and versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 are 
released  with new features every time.  Suppose a flaw is discovered 
that affects _all_ versions of Foo.  What happens is that just the flaw 
is patched in Debian stable. Let's say that again, _just the flaw_.  You 
don't get a new version which includes all the up to date features of 
1.2 through 1.5 _you just get a fixed version of Foo 1.1_.  That is why 
debian stable appears to be out of date.

Put another way

Software that's doesn't change bar bug and security fixes in "doesn't 
change bar bug and security fixes"  *shocker*

Mart.
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