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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by Twisell on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:24AM (#14580755)
But what is wrong with stable in the first place ?

What you are asking is basically to switch to a rolling cycle with guaranteed support. This is a huge change and also don't account for the fact that many people choose Debian stable specifically because of it's non-rolling cycle...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)? by hsivonen on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:54AM (#14580893)
> But what is wrong with stable in the first place ?

* It's generally unpleasant for a user to know their problem has been fixed but they don't get access to the fix in a long time.

* Users using old software when they don't need to has network effects that give rise to negative externalities. See my other top-level reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580042

> don't account for the fact that many people choose Debian stable specifically because of it's non-rolling cycle

My suggestion is based on the premise that there are users who choose or would like to choose Debian because of its community distro brand equity and not because Debian stable has old software. Also note that I suggested a change in the framing of testing and didn't suggest stable be dropped.

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