Don’t sweat it (yet) and just lock it in your package manager. If you are on Debian, the last reasonable versions can be apt get from snapshots.debian.org and then just apt pin / apt mark hold those.
Debian has a policy of only cherry picking security updates, or critical bugfixes, in order to ensure maximum system stability. In general, they don’t do entire program updates or additional features. For the 4 year lifecycle of a Debian release, it will behave the same as it did yesterday.
Their comments on the bug tracker issue regarding staying on non-AI versions are however rather worrying, and they’ve ignored the issue completely, burying their heads in the sand.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Don’t sweat it (yet) and just lock it in your package manager. If you are on Debian, the last reasonable versions can be apt get from snapshots.debian.org and then just apt pin / apt mark hold those.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Debian has a policy of only cherry picking security updates, or critical bugfixes, in order to ensure maximum system stability. In general, they don’t do entire program updates or additional features. For the 4 year lifecycle of a Debian release, it will behave the same as it did yesterday.
As of today, current version of rsync in Debian’s stable’s packages is 3.4.1: packages.debian.org/stable/rsync (archive).
The versions with significant LLM assistance are 3.4.3 and later.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Their comments on the bug tracker issue regarding staying on non-AI versions are however rather worrying, and they’ve ignored the issue completely, burying their heads in the sand.