> Because eventually a future version will come out that doesn't work > with > the stable base, at which point we suddenly stop supporting the > package. > That's much worse than just admitting up front that we can't support > the > package for the next 4 years.
Let's agree to disagree. I find it perfectly fine if we told people up front that we support it as long as upstream has a version that works with the stable base. They are still better or at least not worse of with that than with a self-installed one. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL