Re: a policy question about stable

From: Brian Nelson (pyro_at_debian.org)
Date: 07/14/04

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:54:47 -0700

    Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

    > Dear Users,
    > I'm using Sarge and installed "gaim" to log on to MSN, Yahoo
    > messengers. I wasn't able to log on to Yahoo. Looking up at
    > Gaim's IRC channel, I found that the problem had been fixed in
    > Gaim 0.79.
    > I know testing(sarge) has delayed updates than stable/sid. My
    > question is when sarge gets into stable and such problems occur,
    > how do things get accomplished ?
    > Does packages like gaim and others remain unusable or their
    > versions are increased or they are patched ?

    In most cases, they'd probably remain unusable. It can be pretty tough
    to get much newer versions by the stable release manager. Patching is
    an option, but most maintainers aren't motivated to backport patches to
    the old software in stable, especially if there's a chance it'll be
    rejected. The stable update policy really sucks for software of this
    sort (see also spamassassin, virus scanners...). 

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