[Rd] Why not in Debian distro?

[Timothy H. Keitt]

A.J. Rossini wrote:

>>>>>>"PD" == Peter Dalgaard <BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>> writes:
>>>>>>
>    PD> later. Whatever happened to the internal Debian discussions on
>    PD> creating a faster upgrade path for applications?
>
>They created Woody/testing, which is a broken nightmare.
>
>Sid/unstable isn't bad -- in fact, it's about as high-quality a
>release as an average RedHat one, for the most part.
>
That hasn't been my experience (although I haven't used RH for awhile). 
 Sid is high-quality until it randomly blows up in your face after an 
apt-get.  Debian has a bad case of SADD (stable attention deficit 
disorder).  None of the developers care much about updating stable.  Its 
too much fun crashing unstable.  I switched to Progeny and never looked 
back.  (I can still 'apt-get -b source <pkg>' from Sid for 
non-system-critical packages.)

Tim

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