[Dovecot] Dovecot v0.99.13-3 upgrade to 1.0.15-2 ??

[Charles Marcus]

On 2010-10-01 12:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Charles Marcus put forth on 10/1/2010 9:44 AM:
>> On 2010-10-01 7:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> I guess Debian doesn't count as a "modern" distro then.  ;)
>>> Lenny has 1.2.13 available via backports.  Squeeze is frozen, and
>>> will apparently ship with 1.2.13, whenever Squeeze ships...

>> Yeah... I understand the argument, but this is why I've never
>> seriously considered Debian for myself...

> Due to the age of some/many packages in Debian Stable?  Or because
> new packages aren't introduced in between major releases, except for
> those released via backports?  Or both?

Both...

> One can always install new packages from source. I've done it a few 
> times on Debian simply because they didn't have the package at all. 
> I've also installed RPMs on Debian for the same reason--IOzone comes 
> to mind.

I know, but I prefer to stick with the package manager if at all
possible for many reasons... I don't go in for distro wars either, I
prefer gentoo, but to each his/her own.

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Best regards,

Charles