[PHILOSOPHY] Stability and Release Schedules

[Peter Gordon]

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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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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