Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:03:18AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> Yes, it works that way because Debian Testing is constantly being >> updated with packages. The latest release of Ubuntu is always a >> snapshot of Unstable a few months before they release. By the time they >> do release, a large number of the packages have already migrated to >> Testing. >> > > So Ubuntu in effect Freezes the release sooner and then just does bug fixes > until they figure it is stable enough, whereas Debian doesn't freeze > testing untill more stuff is ready? > > Doug. > > > You can say that. Except the thing is after an Ubuntu version is out of date, Canonical no longer supports that version with updates and the likes. So if by the end of the six month period 6.10 has 300 bugs, they will never be fixed.
And from what I can tell, Dapper isn't really going to be LTS as you'd think. I'm pretty sure once Feisty becomes the newest Ubuntu release the Edgy packages will just roll down into Dapper, kind of like after Testing becomes Stable in Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
