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	javispedro	2014-10-03 , 08:33
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Originally Posted by w00t

Seeing the number of distros that ship complex things like Qt virtually unpatched at the .0 minor release, after knowing the amount of effort we had to put into 5.1.x and now 5.2.x to get them to a remotely product-capable level, makes me realise that the people testing them aren't really testing them at all. Either that or they're testing with a "hello world".

So on one side you have things like Debian Stable which ship 2-5 year old packages and take years to "stabilize", and on the other hand you have rolling distros which explicitly have minimal QA only (a glaring example is Sid).

You'd be surprised at the number of users Sid has.

I'm not saying one method is better than the other, but there's definitely some significant number of users that would choose "MOAR updated" even if it meant "it crashes every other day". I mean, google for "$DISTRO 'unstable' branch does not deserve its name, it's actually quite stable!!!!"-like posts where you get lots of people with questionable definitions of "quite stable".

Note personally I don't care about this. I use Gentoo stable, which is still stuck at a gcc version not much newer than what Jolla ships today, and Qt 4.8 .

Last edited by javispedro; 2014-10-03 at 08:37.