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Re: Why don't we publish a "Roadmap for Debian/Linux"



'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
>
>My feelings about what kernels to provide lie in the broadest support
>possible. Thus we should provide two kernel packages with a distribution.
>One from the previous distribution that has proven itself to provide the
>broadest support for the various platforms our users have and another that
>represents the newest kernel that can be made to run on at least some of
>the platforms that we support.

Certainly we should make it easy to use 2.1 kernels.  I just don't feel
we should package them for general distribution.  And in general we
should not package beta software (I know that all software is beta to
some degree, but the major releases have a much lower chance of
including fatal or destructive bugs than the alpha and beta releases).
You are an exceptional package maintainer:  you are responsive to bug
reports and releasing new packages with bug fixes.  So I wouldn't
demand that all package maintainers follow stable releases from
upstream.  But most of us (myself included) don't have time for the
extra level of bug tracking and beta release monitoring to justify
using them in such a widely distributed system as Debian in all but the
most exceptional cases.  I also fear that if upstream maintainers get
extra bad press due to a serious bug in one of their beta releases that
we distribute widely, they may switch to a less free XFree86-like beta
distribution policy (Urg!).

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