[Tfug] Debian struggling with security

[JD Rogers]

On 7/7/05, Brian Murphy <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
[snip]
> As far as I can tell, solidarity has prevented the 2.6 series from being
> broken into a 2.7 development version.  Linus wanted to keep all of the
> smartest and most active developers in 2.6 for a while.  More eyes and
> experience will get quicker solutions.  Contrast this to 2.4 where
> fixes were first written by primary authors against 2.5 and the boring
> work of backporting was often left for someone else.  I'm sure that I'm
[snip]

Oooooh.. I was wondering why change from the odd/dev even/release
numbering scheme. I always thought it was slick, but I guess politics
and social behavior sometimes must supersede logic.