Ian Murdock 今天在他的 blog 裡又寫了一篇再論 Ubuntu 與 Debian 的文章 Ubuntu vs. Debian, reprise ,進一步地引論他所關心的相容性問題。

Murdock 所期待的

... we must ensure that the various Debian-derived distros are based on compatible packages, not just a set of packages that have a common lineage. A package built on Progeny should work on Linspire; a package built on Linspire should work on Ubuntu; a package built on Ubuntu should work on Progeny. You get the basic idea. ...

應該也是大部分 Debian-family distro 的希望。不過混用 sid 和 sarge 就已經很痛苦了,再要把 ubuntu、progeny、linspire (前身是 Lindows?) 的套件混到一起,問題只會更大。相信 Murdock 的意思不是要專注於解決套件相依性的問題,而是儘可能在設計 distro 套件的架構時,預先避免掉結構上的衝突;至於那些相依性的爛帳,就是發行的時候要處理的問題了。

我對 derived distro 的相容性問題感覺不深,但 Murdock 另外提到

... Debian needs to get sarge out the door as soon as possible, and once sarge is released, Debian should adopt a time-based release cycle as well. ...

關於將來 Debian 的發行應該要有時限,我則是非常同意。像 gentoo 一年出個幾次,或是隔一年半載發行一次都可以,重點是時間間隔要固定。對於要拿 Debian 作實務應用的人來說,確定新版的發行時間之後,才容易 規畫工作時程 ;這實在是非常重要的。

現在想必有一堆工作都被 sarge 卡在半空中;至少我手上就有幾件是這樣。

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