On 27.12.2012 16:55, VDR User wrote:
Matthias Schniedermeyer: Pointing out that the last stable release of VDR having an old timestamp has nothing to do with people _choosing_ to use the developer version, which is warned and well-known to possibly contain changes that will cause problems for those expecting "stable" behavior. The advice has always been, and will always be, if you expect stable then use stable.
It is, or can be, a dependency problem. If your main use-case is for e.g. provided by a plugin that only works with the lastest development-release you are more or less forced to use a development release.
Or some other example i use a self compiled VDR, but i'm also a Debian user. Debian is currently in a freeze-phase for the next stable release. So i looked which version of VDR i could install: apt-cache show vdr | grep Version Version: 1.7.28-1 There isn't even a 1.6 version to install only a single 1.7 Version. (Technically i'm on unstable, but there shouldn't be that much difference as long as Wheezy isn't released )
And this is Debian, famous for being ultraconservative when it is about stability. I'm smelling a problem of reality. When the caravan moves on ....
Linus realized that when he changed the development-model of the kernel last time some years ago: Yearlong "gaps" are a problem in reality.