Re: gEDA: geda 20030223 in Debian 'testing'

[Holger Waechtler <holger-at-NOSPAMconvergence_dot_de>]

Russ Dill wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 10:55, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 08 April 2003 13:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>>
>>>gaf 20030223 finally made it into Debian's 'testing' section today.
>>>There's been some delays for the past few months due to problems with
>>>glibc etc. The previous version in testing was 20010722!
>>>
>>
>>Honor to you, and shame to Debian. I have been using Debian for about half a 
>>year now because I had some problem with compiling stuff under Suse 7.3 and 
>>decided to try Debian, as it is supposed to be so developer friendly. In my 
>>opinion it is not. The release policy of Debian is the biggest reason to use 
>>something else, and if you want to follow the bleeding edge, you suddenly 
>>find yourself spending more time on looking for .deb repositories than 
>>actually using your computer for work.
>>
>>This is not the place to rant about Debian, but I installed Debian to compile 
>>geda, because it was supposed to be 'the best distribution for developers'. 
>>I'm not sure if I'd support that claim.
> 
> 
> Different debian "releases" are for different purposes, clearly, if you
> want to follow bleeding edge, testing is not for you (you'd be looking
> for sid)

Debian unstable is even more recent. And it's pretty easy to add as many 
.deb repositories as you want to your /etc/apt/sources.list...

Holger