[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, codenamed Etch, had been due to arrive by
December 4, 2006, but it’s been delayed because some developers
have deliberately slowed down their work.“According to a blog note by Andreas Barth, Debian developer and
release manager, the delay has resulted because ‘Some people who
used to do good work reduced their involvement drastically. There
was nothing I could do about, and that happened way before I
started full-time on release, but on the global picture that still
counts…'”