Miguel, On 02/11/2015 09:47 AM, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't fully aware of this distinction > about nginx development branches. > > Maybe I should reword my concern. I'm finding nginx features only > available in 1.7 branch but I don't see any package in Debian yet. > > Since I don't want to install it directly from upstream and I > maintain some Ubuntu servers, I'll take a look at your PPA.
I apologize that this distinction was not made clear. This happens a lot downstream as well. For the most part, stable is just that - stable. You can make the argument that it is analagous to `stable` in Debian where bugfixes and such get in but not really version bumps (ignoring the backports repos). I can understand the want of the newer features, but there's a bunch of changes upstream in 1.7.x, and I don't think we can call it 'stable' enough for inclusion. (That's just my opinion) Another consideration is, downstream, the 1.7.x changes three times in a row of that minor x revision ended up breaking some third party modules. Partly resolved for one module, not resolved for all. That means heavier package maintenance. While I do this with the PPAs, it isn't always happening in Debian with updates to the third party modules because the stable version works with the versions in place now for the third party modules. I think this is the reason we don't ship a WAF functionality either, for the same 'maintenance load' that it requires. Same logic for other modules being included or not. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
