The question of rolling release?

[Kevin Kofler]

Bryan Quigley wrote:
> It's worth noting that the following already appear to "rolling"
> components:
> Linux Kernel
> Firefox (forced by upstream policies)
> LibreOffice
> Wine

The funny thing is that Firefox and OpenOffice.org used to be the examples 
(along with GNOME) brought up by the proponents of the current stable update 
policies to prove that it's common practice to not upgrade to the latest 
version in stable updates…

I think a more flexible upgrade policy (i.e. explicitly encouraging upgrades 
of that kind rather than discouraging them as is the case now) would be a 
much better solution than a true rolling release. You'd get the new stuff 
without the breakage!

        Kevin Kofler