Exaggeration
Exaggeration
Posted Sep 23, 2010 15:04 UTC (Thu) by juliank (guest, #45896)In reply to: Exaggeration by foom
Parent article: A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian
> released. But it's going to be way outdated at release time, if you take
> some specific high-profile examples:
> - Python 2.6 (not 2.7, released Jul 3)
Same for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10.
> - Linux 2.6.32 (not 2.6.33-2.6.35, 2.6.33 released Feb 24)
Well, 2.6.32 will be maintained longer than 2.6.33, 2.6.34, or 2.6.35; and makes much more sense for a Debian release.
> - GCC 4.4 (not 4.5, released Apr 15)
Same for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10; moving to a new GCC version is usually a bit complicated.
> - Firefox 3.5 (not 3.6, released Jan 21)
> - Thunderbird 3.0 (not 3.1, released Jun 24)
Mozilla stuff is generally a problem, as far as I know.
Posted Sep 26, 2010 14:15 UTC (Sun)
by pgquiles (guest, #70318)
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Ubuntu 10.10 already has Python 2.7
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=python2.7
>> - GCC 4.4 (not 4.5, released Apr 15)
Ubuntu 10.10 already has gcc 4.5
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gcc-4.5
If Ubuntu can develop something quite stable with 6-month release cycles and 2-month stabilization cycles, why can't Debian try it? (openSuse has 9-month release cycle and also works well for them)
Posted Sep 26, 2010 14:34 UTC (Sun)
by juliank (guest, #45896)
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> Ubuntu 10.10 already has gcc 4.5
Debian has those packages as well, in experimental. In Ubuntu, there is no thing such as experimental, so it needs to be in maverick in order to be in Ubuntu.
Exaggeration
>Same for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10.
>Same for Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10; moving to a new GCC version is >usually a bit complicated.
Exaggeration
But it's not the default and not supported, so practically useless.
It's not the default, so it does not matter.