[svlug] Re: Re: Updated Debian Apache Packages?

[Jeremy Zawodny]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:15:09PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:37:08AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Nate Campi wrote:
> > 
> > we were talking about public servers, and those (imho) should never run
> > unstable or testing/frozen
>  
> I'm tired of hearing this.

As am I.

> This is bullshit. Even most of the debian guys will admit to it now

Yeah, it's amusing to see this used as a way to bitch about Debian by
folks who don't get it (not that Nate is one of them):

  * You should only run stable on a public server.
  * Stable is so old that you can't get the software you want for it.

  Therefore Debian sucks.

Sigh.

> Stable is so old that you there are *many* reasons why you don't
> want to run that on public/production servers.

> Of course, 9x% of the debian developers have been running
> testing/unstable on their servers for a long time already....

Which is exactly why the rest of us feel comforatable doing it too.

Jeremy
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