10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
9:13 a.m.
Patrick Kaell wrote:
Until now, it may not have been a big problem, if you
didn't need a
current and stable system at the same time. But now the slow release
schedule may introduce a severe problem. Sarge uses DEVFS, a system
which has created some problems on the driver level, created race
issues, is not maintained anymore and may even be removed from the main
kernel tree by mid 2005 according to Linus Torvalds. A switch to udev is
out of question according to some Debian developers as this switch would
delay the release of Sarge by additional 2 years. So Sarge will stick to
DEVFS, which means a considerable load increase to the Debian security
team, which will have to maintain DEVFS themselves and will have to
backport security fixes to obsolete software packages.
I wasn't specifially criticising Debian, but mentionning it as a
counter-example of an efficient process.
The Linux kernel is another good example of 'good dictatorship', isn't it?
-pu