[geeks] Okay, I relent.

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:

> What's the problem with upgrading the testing distribution to
> the stable version?

Eh?  There is none.

> > > No, but they are annoying, and every time I look at Debian
> > > it is using a lot of old versions of software, like OpenBSD.
> > This is considered to be a feature, not a bug.  On my production systems,
> > I like to be able to trivially keep it up-to-date with bug fixes and patches
> > for security flaws, whilst not having the feature set change under my feet
> > and break everything.  And all my machines are production systems.  If they
> > weren't doing anything useful, they'd be turned off.
> I don't consider it to be a bug, I consider it to be inconvenient
> since they are several versions out of date for some of the more
> important packages (like the kernel; 2.4 is much better than 2.2).

Relying on pre-built packages for your kernel strikes me as being really
silly anyway, as there would by necessity only be generic kernels without
the particular mixture of drivers you need.  If you feel the urge to put
your own kernel under package management, then the procedure for doing so
is well-documented.

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