Originally posted by XorEaxEax
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Basically, long fixed upstream in 3.8; but affects all previous "stable" systems.
So they went though patch backporting(actually a rewrite), which made into Debian much much later than in 3.8+.
When you use Debian for 3-4 years, it comes clear that whole stable/unstable paradigm does not work.
You can introduce more bugs, when you fix bugs. True.
.... But the ideal definition of "stable" is just to find current less-buggy state, several steps from cutting edge, and to give full power on actually fixing bugs in cutting edge.
Instead, versions are frozen, bugs are found which were already fixed by rewrite of something that is still not in frozen version; so the fix must be rewritten explicitly for frozen version - *puff* you have several versions to support and much more work to do.
That said, I am debian user if it comes to binary system. But I always like source-based much more, even if its more troublesome. But at least those troubles actually act in direction of working on cutting edge. Not patching of something that was long patched by another patch.
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