Backports? Just say no! [Was: I don't want to beat this > to death, but...]

[Jan Morén]

sön 2004-10-24 klockan 13:15 +0100 skrev Eamonn Sullivan:
> > > some people want all the stability of the release
> > > version and all the software of the unstable version.
> > 
> > To wildly misquote a famous dead guy: "Those who would trade stability
> > for the bleeding edge deserve neither."
> > 
> > If 'someone' wants all the stability of the release version, they should
> > use it. If they want all the bleeding edge software in the development
> > branch, they should use it.
> > 
> > Releases are only six months apart!
> 
> I wasn't going to jump into this, but I will now. Six months is a long
> time to wait to check a bank account. And this old version is more of
...

The bank account argument is specious. Ubuntu (or any distro) can't base
version selection on something like that - my situation is the opposite,
with my bank being slow to accept newer versions, so .10PR does not work
for me. 

I agree with the decision to go back to 0.9; I run .10PR on my FC2
machine, and it has several problems, including frequent segfaults and
slowdowns.



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