In <49E3E6A2.2090909@ij.net>, Felix Miata wrote:
It's in the release notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.h tml#newdistro
Best I can tell, that document does tell what version of KDE is in Lenny, but it doesn't actually contain any text "guaranteeing" that version will not change. That's covered in the various Debian policy documents though.
On 2009/04/14 00:45 (GMT+0200) Anders Johansson composed:
I have no idea what "RC-level" means, but again, it
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. The Debian BTS classifies bugs by severity, like many bug trackers. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities documents the severities used. The worst of the severities are considered "release-critical" or "RC". RC and security-related bugs are the only ones fixed in the stable release (currently "Lenny") or older releases ("Etch" was updated on the 8th). http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ tracks these bugs across the various versions on Debian
I'm no builder nor programmer, but I have to think it means any pre-release (at RC level, as opposed to beta level) version of software included in the release will eventually be upgraded to the release version without needing to upgrade to a subsequent Debian Stable release.
No, that's not what it means at all. Release candidate quality software doesn't usually make it into the stable version of Debian. If it does, bug fixes would be backported to it. Except in very dire circumstances, packages in stable are not updated to new upstream versions, only the changes required to address the bug are backported in an attempt to avoid unrelated breakage. This is one of the reasons "non-free" and "contrib" aren't considered part of Debian proper. For "non-free" the source is not available or not modifiable. For "contrib" same problem, but for dependencies. This makes it difficult or impossible for Debian for fix bugs in the most responsible manner.
will be very interesting to see how they cope.
KDE 3.5.9/10 is very mature software. It is unfortunate that Debian won't get any help from upstream, but the number of RC bugs should be rather low.
I suspect it will not be a problem to maintain something as mature as KDE3.5.10. Maybe they'll create a fork..
They are only going to maintain it for Lenny. KDE 4 is scheduled to be in Squeeze (and is already in Sid/unstable), there is no plan to preserve KDE 3.5 beyond the lifetime of Lenny. Debian, like other distributions, generally tries to move away from software that is no longer maintained upstream--it is just a practical decision to maximize the utility of limited, (mostly) volunteer labor. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/