Hi,
On 12/27/23 00:21, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I'm looking for a blend of Debian that is released on a 6-month
cadence. Each six months, a Debian would be released with the latest
release version of constituent software. This is similar to what
Fedora currently does.
I believe it's called Ubuntu.
Debian "blends" are specialized distributions with defaults selected for
specific applications, in general these do not release on a different
schedule.
A proper, consistent "release" is a lot of work. We've debated various
strategies to reduce that over the years and implemented some (like the
"testing" distribution).
Taking a snapshot of packages that, according to their dependencies, can
be co-installed works to some extent, but for something to be called a
"release" it is also necessary for someone to be prepared to provide
support for the package version that ended up in the release, throughout
the release's lifetime.
Every release essentially creates a "stable release" branch for every
package, so there cannot be a release without support from all package
maintainers.
Simon
