On 12 Oct 2002, at 2:50, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > How can Debian 'officially' support a GPL product? What's to
> > support? What support?
> True. Support from Debian = Zilch. Zip. Zero.
> The package maintainer would supply some degree of support I guess
> (like feature requests, bugfixes if any).
> > It's just their way of saying 'if it blows up don't hate us, but it
> > should all be good.', so don't fear the testing section of your
> > apt.sources
I have a Debian distro and still use 3.3x ... not just for the fear of
move (i put in service the version with auth the second day after
was released, and woody the day it was released as unstable).
But the move to 4.x is quite hard since the config files are a little
different and i had a lot of chnges made on them so i actually i
would have some difficult to test extensively ...
Also another problem: security updates on Debian works nice, but
are done only for stable.
They refuse to put on testing new versions of the program. Since
every subversion from Phil is not only a bug fix or inprovement in
performance, but also add nearly always some features, cannot be
accepted. This was what was told me by the maintainer a couple of
years ago.
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