The "Debian way"? (was: Firefox - new version for repositories?)

[Colin Brace]

On 2/7/06, Sasha Tsykin <psychosushi at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Bugs are fixed, but no new versions are added. That's the way things are
> done in Debian based distros.

Thanks both to you and to Ulrich in the previous message. This
explains something I had been wondering about for sometime. I've have
been using Fedora on my desktop system for about a year and half, and
Ubuntu on a laptop since mid-December. One of the first things I
noticed about Ubuntu was FAR less of those dependency problems than I
was encountering with the Fedora repos. Like people say, everything
just kinda works. On the other hand, I was curious about the fact that
are far fewer incremental updates of Ubuntu than Fedora, including,
for example, new kernel packages. On my desktop box, I run "yum
update" once very week or so and there is usually at least couple
dozen updated packages every time. No complaints though about the
Ubuntu strategy as described above; all things considered, it's an
effective arrangement, and I am content to wait until April for
Dapper.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam