On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 11:11 -0500, Eric Jon Rostetter wrote:
I have never understood anyone who would use a distro for critical applications that forces them to use 3+ year old software.
Because it is stable and just plain works, of course.
Oh what rubbish, ubuntu released a brand new version of their distribution, cant recall if it was 8.04 or 8.10, with MailScanner, which never worked, not only was it I think years old version, it was just made a deb and inserted as a "stable" package, which never ran or was it ever going to with how it was packaged, so please don't sit there and spin that rot that debian associated people also do.
IMHO, if you want to use a distros version of package X, then you accept ALL of the risks that go with it, and you should NEVER ask for help on the upstreams site and the projects I'm involved with will either ignore you, or tell you to go to the distro for help. If package maintainers insist on doing things like this, then they accept full responsibility for it, adn who are they to decide a version 3 yo is more stable than the one released last week.