Disgruntled Debian developers delay Etch (Linux-Watch)

Disgruntled Debian developers delay Etch (Linux-Watch)

Posted Dec 20, 2006 2:16 UTC (Wed) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)
In reply to: Disgruntled Debian developers delay Etch (Linux-Watch) by NAR
Parent article: Disgruntled Debian developers delay Etch (Linux-Watch)

I have to admit that running Sarge on the desktop can be ...ahem...
difficult sometimes. I use lots of packages from backports.org.

I think Debian should continue to add new versions of important software
to the stable distribution, even after it has been released. For example,
why not add firefox 1.5 or OpenOffice 2.0 to Sarge (under names different
from the old versions already in there) ?

This is what backports.org does mostly, but it doesn't feel like an
integral part of Debian, has no US mirrors (!!!) and doesn't receive
security updates.

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