| ▲ | cesarb 5 days ago | |||||||
> Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection. Nowadays, the software would have been automatically updated for 99% of the machines running it, whether they wanted that update or not. | ||||||||
| ▲ | masklinn 5 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
Hah. Debian will happily keep shipping libraries years out of date. Then complain that you’re holding them back when they finally wake up and update sid to a bleeding edge release. | ||||||||
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