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Re: slowing down point releases

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> One of the CD manufacturers called me this morning to ask about the
> expected frequency of point releases. He would like to have a product
> that is not obsoleted before it gets to store shelves. The possibilities
> would be to not make an official CD for each minor point release, or to
> not make point releases as often as we do now.
> 
> I think we can't accomodate this CD manufacturer, and it's not his business
> how often we make point releases. I would discourage him from making a
> Debian-based product if that's a major concern for him. Before I get back
> to him about this, I'd like to hear opinions from other developers.

In a way, I believe he has a valid concern.  They spend money on producing
a lot of these CD's.   However, by the time they can sell it, Debian has
already moved on.   We should probably have 1 official CD, and not make
one for the rest, unless their's a major change like X.  i.e.  We will
include a message on the CD that says to look at
http://www.debian.org/errata/ for things that have changed since the CD
was published.  If they are small things, like a changes to bash.. We
don't produce a new CD, a person can download them.  However, if it's a
big change, like a security hole was found in X, we can't really expect
people to download that, so we produce a new CD.

Just my 2 cents,

Shaya


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