Re: Next release

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 2, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Riccardo wrote:
> About stable, since I gather Debian tracks stable (?) it would be  
> nice to have some of the printing stuff backported to stable: PRICE  
> doesn't compile against current debian packages. But it is just my  
> guess: htey have an reasonably up to date base, but a horrid old gui  
> and I thought it was that they track stable.

Debian stable has pretty old stuff.  The Debian testing release has  
our latest "stable" packages, which I am now noticing are almost a  
year old (from initial release). Perhaps we could think about making a  
new stable branch...

Although (my two cents), the "unstable" label is a bit of a misnomer,  
in the vast majority of cases, you could probably install any new  
unstable release, and your old apps would work fine without a  
recompile (aside from the so name change). Although we could do a  
little better with ABI compatibility, for the most part, only API  
changes happen in the unstable branch...