Guy Fraser wrote:
I am not completely familiar with Debian, but other OSes use
a similar development/stable branch system. You may have
misread or been mislead, because most similar systems still
have releases for the reasons I stated above, but the only
time the releases change is when a significant change is
made, and not based on a time schedule. Periodically such
systems also have patch releases that fix security or
stability issues and require significant package updates.
Exactly. For example, Gentoo has a similar system, where deemed-stable
packages have an 'arch' keyword, potentially broken but
works-for-the-devs packages are keyworded as '~arch' and known-broken
packages are hardmasked to prevent installation without explicit user
interaction to "unmask" them as needed (where the 'arch' or
'~arch'
keywording is the architecture, such as '~x86', 'sparc', '~mips',
'amd64', et al).
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