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Debian Project Votes To Postpone Policy Changes

Posted by timothy on from the deep-structure dept.

jonoxer writes "A little while ago members of the Debian project voted to make changes to the Social Contract. As previously reported on Slashdot, the end result looked likely to be a delay in the release of Sarge, the next Stable edition of Debian, until 2005. But on Saturday Debian developers voted to postpone the changes until after Sarge releases, effectively affirming that the changes need to be made but making a pragmatic decision to not let the next release be delayed as a result. The official voting page doesn't show the result yet, but it's been semi-officially announced."

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  1. Paralysis by Analysis by gtoomey · · Score: 0, Troll
    I've found the Woody installer far too confusing. The FreeBSD installer is alos text based and much easier to understand.

    And the last time I looked Sarge was up to 14 CDs! This "design by a committee" approach makes Debian years behind other distros.

  2. Re:Out of date? Compared to what? by NNKK · · Score: 0, Troll

    > Then why not use Debian testing? It doesn't break that often and is relatively new.

    I tried that on a server that needed to stay fairly recent with packages. Guess what? Within a couple months, it got to the point that it's completely unusable for anything except running BIND. Couldn't even get GCC to run. Switched to FreeBSD shortly thereafter.