On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +0000, AG wrote:
>>> I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of >>> the response from one of the Amarok team I received when asking >>> about a problem I had with Amarok in Squeeze playing two (or more) >>> tracks simultaneously. >> >> Why? > > Simply because the Amarok folk (or Myriam anyway) (a) advocates dropping > Debian in favour of a derived distro with a faster release cycle and (b) > expects people to update their system to match Amarok releases, when the > software is buggy in a past release. As I replied in my original post - > that's like the tail wagging the dog. Debian (and other "slow-moving" distributions) have a problem with applications that are fast-moving. The developers either don't have the resources to work on a older release (most likely) or prefer to focus on new features, etc. Amarok isn't the only such desktop application. There are even non-desktop applications that have this problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672695 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/05/msg00610.html >>> I just don't think that Myriam's response was at all helpful - and >>> say as much - and for her to propose that I change my distro in >>> order to match Amarok's release cycles is quite absurd. >> >> Her response was pretty good compared to some other responses I've seen >> regarding bugs in old (as far as the developers are concerned) software. >> Usually, its something like: Upgrade to latest version from cvs and see >> if bug is still present. > > Well, that's hardly a justification or an excuse, especially if developers > give a hoot about their user base. You can't simply assume that they don't care; keeping more than one version up-to-date takes "bodies." The latest Fedora release has been delayed by a couple of months because of a switch to a new installer that's proved problematic and the impossibility of keeping the old installer up-to-date as a fallback because of the entire development team had to focus on the new installer. So even RH doesn't have the resources for dual-track development (or prefers not to expend the development and QA resources for dual-track development). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swvlo4ych6ssvj_he1vxvr9zv0hqs3cfyqfwtqhzp0...@mail.gmail.com
