On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2/12/2009, Maarten Bezemer (mcbdovecot@robuust.nl) wrote:
I can see 1.1.9-1 in Experimental, but not even in Unstable yet. So I'm not ready to try it on production machines.
I could never use a distro that required me to use outdated/buggy software...
So you prefer to use the new&shiny versions of the software that include all new&shiny bugs? Given my experience with a lot of software, that's just not an acceptable policy. Not everything is as bad as Microsoft software, which usually needs at least Service Pack 1 to operate normally, but in general, bleeding edge isn't the way to go.
For production environments, I'm more than happy with Debian Stable plus backports versions of things like dovecot. That way I don't have to worry about upgrading every single package by hand when (not if) security updates have to be applied, and still have the advantage of running a close-to-bleeding-edge version of packages like dovecot. Without having to do much about it when new versions come out. If they prove to be good enough for unstable and testing, I can grab them and use them.