Okay, yes, I am vain, but this week's Debian Weekly News email just made my day.
Debian-Volatile Strategy. The volatile team [29]pondered to create a second [30]volatile archive with less strict criteria. This would help packages such as [31]Gaim that need to be updated during the lifetime of sarge in order to support modified protocols. They are also looking for ways to announce updated packages.
29. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg00016.html
30. http://volatile.debian.net/
31. http://packages.debian.org/gaim
I talked to some of the #Debian-release guys about this late last week, when I learned that we would not be able to back port some rather trivial bug fixes to Debian's 1.2.1 Gaim package with any significant chance of getting them accepted. If we cannot get trivial bug fixes in, how in the world would we ever get the kind of significant changes that a new authentication for a protocol would cause? I would rather avoid a situation like the current Debian stable, which has a 0.58 that will not work with many of the protocols it claims to support.
It is nice to be listened to.