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wooptoo

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Debian considering rolling-releases

It seems that Debian is considering adopting the rolling-release model: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=659
This is just in the discussion stage for now.

The following paragraph made me smile:

There’s some user demand for rolling releases. For evidence, one can look at the usage of Debian testing or unstable which clearly goes further than the Debian development community. Or at the quickly growing market share of ArchLinux.

So those who want to switch to Debian stable to keep gnome2... well, this news might have ruined your day

Pierre

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

Read the whole article: it's more or less just about renaming their testing repository. They'll keep stable releases (which will also have gnome2 atm :-))

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wonder

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

at least they know that our market share grows. why does it matter, i don't know...

Last edited by wonder (2011-05-03 17:31:47)

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flamelab

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

They are talking about cut.debian.org ?

Inxsible

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

If its just a renaming of their testing repo, I doubt it will get them any more users than they currently have for that repo. Users who are savvy enough to know what "rolling release" means and how it differs from the versioned releases and also what it entails, already know how to enable testing repos in Debian, IMHO.

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arinlares

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

This just reminded me I need to probably update my Testing install.

Isn't CUT going to do this?  Or is it going to be Ubuntu-like six-month snapshots?

I think the best system that would probably be easiest to integrate would be a new short-term branch called "newstable," to be used for freezes and fixes, to stop a freeze in Testing and Unstable.  Instead of freezing the "bleeding edge" branches, they could freeze this branch, and fix it.  They could even probably start getting backports set up for it faster.  If they do away with a frozen Stable, they would only succeed in making Slackware the most stable distribution (which I'm sure it is already).

metre

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

at least they know that our market share grows. why does it matter, i don't know...

even more competent maintainers and developers for our favourite distribution: I think so

ngoonee

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

at least they know that our market share grows. why does it matter, i don't know...

even more competent maintainers and developers for our favourite distribution: I think so

Hmm, I'd think 'competent maintainers and developers' aren't necessarily the section of the Linux populace who would be impressed by a mention of Arch Linux is a debian comment

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dolby

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

Its the pressure from the Ubuntus tired of dealing with Mark's fetishism. Its only a matter of time Debian is mold into something entirely different than we knew it. Its getting much closer to Ubuntu each day that goes by.

This is very interesting and would like to see it in action.
This is progress, not becoming an Ubuntu clone...

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ngoonee

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

Old message here.

*ahem* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ng_Systems

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akb825

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

I would imagine that it would have more human oversight than Testing, which is mainly a set of scripts to hold back updates from Sid. However, even Testing and Sid have very out of date packages. For example, Iceweasel (Firefox) is still stuck at 3.5.

dolby

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Re: Debian considering rolling-releases

*ahem* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ng_Systems

Fixed.

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