Re: Slightly OT: Debian Community Poll

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:13:11 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:30:59 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>>
>>> Please do not impose
>>> your definition of "outdated" on everyone else and do not disparage
>>> the hard work that Debian Developers put in quality control.
>>
>> Outdated = not current, obsolete.
> 
> "not current" is _not_ the same as "obsolete"!
> 
> "not current" means "there is a later version"

Yes. Outdated may mean either.

(Comma in dictionary definitions means "or")
 
> "obsolete" means "there is absolutely no reason to use this package".

No. Obsolete is not current, not belonging to the present time, out of use,
out of date, unfashionable.

That does not automatically imply anything about whether you should or not
use it. E.g. I must use the obsolete GNAT under Linux, because there is no
newer one.

> If the FTP package in Debian Lenny allows you to transfer files between
> machines, it is not "obsolete". The fact that the FTP package in Debian
> Squeeze has a couple more minor features does not change that fact.

Ada 83 is obsolete
Ada 95 is not current
(:-))

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