Re: [Texmacs-dev] tmweb/download/linux.en.html#debian: TeXmacs in Debian unstable too old?

[Andrey G. Grozin]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/linux.en.html#debian says:
>
> Versions in "stable", "testing", and "unstable" are way too old.
>
> But Debian testing/unstable contains the very latest TeXmacs stable
> release, that is 1.0.6. What do you wish were in Debian releases?
> TeXmacs development snapshots?
It is an unfortunate historical accident that some documentation somewhere 
states that versions 1.0.x are "stable" and versions 1.0.x.y are 
"development". In reality, things don't work like this, and never did. 
There is no "stable" branch, in which only bug fixes are applied (and such 
a branch never existed). Instead, bugs in 1.0.x.y are fixed in 
1.0.x.(y+1), together with adding new features. The development process is 
more like the kernel 2.6 process than the old even/odd stable/unstable 
one. So, versions 1.0.x.y are full-featured *releases*, not development 
snapshots. In fact, when a user encounters a bug in 1.0.6, the best 
adviuce to him/her is to upgrade to the latest 1.0.6.y and see if it has 
been fixed already. Nobody will ever fix a bug in 1.0.6. If the bug has 
not been fixed in the current 1.0.6.y, it will be, in 1.0.6.(y+1), not in 
1.0.6.

Just IMHO,
Andrey