Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> Hi Ludovic!
>
> As a Debian insider do you know the reason why Debian packages seem so
> outdated? It is not only gcc, I am packaging my stuff for Debian and
> to my amazement discovered that GtkSourceView is ancient. (Let's
> forget about apt used instead of rpm and yum (:-))

(you're right, apt did automatic package dependencies long before yum
even existed :) )

> Is it Debian policy or lack of resources?

Which GtkSourceView package are you talking about and which version of
Debian are you running?

http://bugs.debian.org/558676 RM: gtksourceview -- ROM; old, superseded, unmaintained upstream

http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gtksourceview2

says the current version is 2.10.3-1; is that "ancient"?

PS. Debian policy is to *always* build packages on unstable unless you
want to fix a security bug in stable.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.