Alan DeKok wrote:
On Sep 8, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Martin Pauly <pauly@hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
IMO, there one good idea in the Debian approach: Treat security fixes sperately from any functional changes. No matter what improvements a new version brings, you almost always want to have a stable, secure environment you can build your next enhancement on.
That's fine... but the result is that *we* take the hit of supporting their users who refuse to upgrade.
There are people who complain about bugs, get told they're already fixed in newer versions, and then complain that they MUST use the upstream distribution.
Well, if you won't upgrade and they won't support you, why is it *my* problem? Don't complain to me if you stapled your feet to the floor.
Yes. I'm also fed up by Linux distribution packagers blaming me for making new releases. This is a problem many open source projects have. And it really gets bizarre when people are insisting on using binary packages because they already pay for a support contract for an enterprise distribution but then blame upstream developers for not providing a specific solution at no charge. Ciao, Michael.