Time for rolling release focus? (for such packages)
Posted May 17, 2012 16:28 UTC (Thu) by
perennialmind (subscriber, #45817)
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Time for rolling release focus? by nickbp
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Stable distributions and unstable software
It's much nicer when you can install the individual package from backports into a stable environment. Running testing wholesale isn't an option for most folks and transplanting packages directly from testing is problematic. (I'm not saying it can't be done well, but so far I've only managed to do so poorly). One often runs into the odd package that needs to be updated on a different schedule. Typically it's a desire for a newer version, but sometimes it's a package that is only available in the upstream release. For projects which push updates like Wordpress, Chrome, and Firefox, why not bar them from stable, but let them live in backports?
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